Saturday, February 20th, 2010 at 7:02pm

Karzai’s Ingratitude

Posted by Tom Skypek

From the AP:

President Hamid Karzai urged NATO to do more to protect civilians during combat operations to secure Marjah, a southern Taliban stronghold and scene of the biggest allied ground assault of the eight-year war.

NATO forces have repeatedly said they want to prevent civilian casualties but acknowledged that it is not always possible. On Saturday, the alliance said its troops killed another civilian in the Marjah area, bringing the civilian death toll from the operation to at least 16.

Addressing the opening session of the Afghan parliament in Kabul, Karzai held up a picture of an 8-year-old girl who lost 12 relatives in a NATO rocket attack during the second day of the Marjah assault, which began Feb. 13.

This type of ingratitude from Karzai is unacceptable.  979 Americans have died fighting in Afghanistan since 2001.  Obviously, NATO forces are working to limit civilian casualties.  Karzai, who is essentially a corrupt thug himself, should be happy the Taliban isn’t still ruling his country.  Why don’t his countrymen step up to the plate and fight these bastards?  The only reason the United States is there in the first place is because his backwards nation ran itself into the ground.  They let Islamist pigs, known as the Taliban, take over and the Taliban let Usama bin Laden and Co. set up shop.

NATO is trying to secure his country so that the Afghan people can enjoy liberty but they refuse to fight for themselves.  President Obama should remind Mr. Karzai that the only reason he still has a head is because of American security.  Remember, Islamists are the civilized folk who cut the heads of off those with whom they disagree.

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