the karzai administration is a zillion times better than the regime that came before him; they were called the taliban. but nation building (not that I believe in it, but liberals allegedly do) will never work if you ignore the "better than the government that came before" because you are insisting on "unreasonably good government that is totally unachievable at this point".
who cares if he is corrupt. he is anti-al-quada. that should be good enough.
Frustration with Afghanistan shows as Clinton pins the focus on al-QaedaSecretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton expressed frustration with the Afghan government Sunday and said that the U.S. goal in the country is to destroy al-Qaeda and not to prop up a corrupt government.
Clinton, who is traveling in Asia with President Barack Obama, said on two Sunday news shows that "these are not prior days" when the U.S. was talking about helping the Afghan government.
"That could happen, but our primary focus is on the security of the United States of America," Clinton said on ABC's "This Week."
Clinton said repeatedly that "our goal here is to defeat al-Qaeda," and she repeated the president's dissatisfaction with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the corrupt Afghan government.
"We believe that President Karzai and his government can do better," Clinton said. "We've delivered that message."
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