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Related News Report cautions Obama on high cost of Afghan war Fri, Nov 12 2010 UPDATE 2-Afghan review will influence U.S. troop pullout Tue, Nov 9 2010 U.S. says Afghan handover in 2014 realistic Mon, Nov 8 2010 Insurgent gains won't delay Afghan handover: commander Mon, Nov 8 2010 Analysis: Afghan review backs U.S. plan despite violence Sun, Nov 7 2010 Analysis & Opinion Between the lines: Obama’s comments on Kashmir On either side of the Pakistan-Afghanistan border: Bajaur and Kunar Related Topics World » Afghanistan » Afghan president Hamid Karzai speaks during his visit to Paktika province November 2, 2010. Credit: Reuters/Omar Sobhani WASHINGTON | Sat Nov 13, 2010 11:13pm EST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai wants the U.S. military to scale back the visibility and intensity of its operations in Afghanistan and end night raids that he said incited people to join the Taliban insurgency, The Washington Post reported on Saturday. "The time has come to reduce military operations," Karzai told the Post in an interview. "The time has come to reduce the presence of, you know, boots in Afghanistan ... to reduce the intrusiveness into the daily Afghan life." The Post said his comments put him at odds with General David Petraeus, who has made "capture-and-kill" missions a central part of counterinsurgency strategy. In the past three months, such night raids of Afghan homes by U.S. Special Operations forces had killed or captured 368 insurgency leaders, the Post said. Karzai was quoted as saying his comments were not meant as criticism of Washington, adding that candor could improve what he termed a "grudging" relationship between the two countries. A senior Afghan official was quoted by the newspaper as saying that Karzai had repeatedly criticized the night raids in meetings with Petraeus and was seeking veto power over the operations. "The raids are a problem always. They were a problem then, they are a problem now. They have to go away," Karzai said in the interview. "The Afghan people don't like these raids, if there is any raid it has to be done by the Afghan government within the Afghan laws. This is a continuing disagreement between us," he said. The comments came as the Obama administration has begun to play down President Barack Obama's July 2011 deadline for beginning to hand over security to Afghan forces and withdraw U.S. troops as conditions merit. Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said this week they viewed Karzai's plan to assume full responsibility for the country's security by 2014 as a realistic goal NATO should endorse at its summit this month. An independent U.S. task force cautioned Obama on Friday about the high cost of the Afghanistan war and said he should consider a narrow military mission if his December review of U.S. strategy in Afghanistan finds the current strategy is not working. Karzai told the Post the United States "should and could" draw down its forces next year and that U.S. soldiers should confine themselves more to their bases and to necessary operations along the Afghan-Pakistani border. (Writing by Peter Cooney; Editing by Anthony Boadle) World Afghanistan Comments See All Comments (6) | Post Comment Nov 13, 2010 11:51pm EST If the USA starts to cut troops back per the wishes of the Afgan Government without capturing Osama bin Laden and quiting down Al-Qaeda to make them not a feared force. They would make all the Troops that were Killed, a Waste and for nothing What I mean is if the above happens,, someone should go around to all the Troops Graves and put something on there Grave Stones that reads ” You Die in a U.S. War for Nothing. SportsCar39 Report As Abusive Nov 14, 2010 12:11am EST KARZAI is merely giving voice to Taliban demands. He is much more allied with the Taliban than with the U.S. and NATO. Let’s start bringing our troops home because their is no victory to be had in Afghanistan. Karzai has a compeltely different agenda and is positioning himself for the future. nativearizonan Report As Abusive Nov 14, 2010 12:12am EST How do the say ‘get out’ in the afghan language? What part of NO NIGHT RAIDS don’t the US understand? This is the first I’ve read about this night raids. I would not have thought that America would stoop so low as to kill people in their sleep. This is a new low. This war is bringing out the worst of America. Former Pres. Bush is oblivious of his role of bringing us down. And Pres. Obama is equally blind to continue taking away our freedoms and taking away people’s lives, in their cavalier manner, like in their sleep. Odd that no one understands that this new Govt. needs to work and deal with tribal chiefs or be back to square one when the US leaves, and all the while the US is killing as many tribal chiefs that they can, even as they sleep. Something is drastically wrong with this picture, but I’m afraid to SLEEP on it. daniwitz13 Report As Abusive Nov 14, 2010 12:19am EST GET REAL … It’s long overdue for the U.S. to stop attacking societies on the other side of the planet … totally destroying them … in the name of “freedom”. War has become an ongoing business for the U.S. the world will not tolerate such despicable actions much longer. If you think killing hundreds of thousands of helpless human beings will bring “freedom”, just look at history. Sanity will eventually prevail … and that means the U.S. had better join the human race … or surely suffer the consequences. MichaelVincent Report As Abusive Nov 14, 2010 12:22am EST Drawing down forces would be the biggest mistake that NATO could make. They need to instead increase the number of NATO troops to over One Million. My reasoning is that this War would be for nothing if they don’t at least complete there First objective, that being capture Osama bin Laden. Second Al-Qaeda & Taliban are slowly turninng this War into a World War, If all the other NATO countries would come to the U.S. aid by committing more troops to get the total to little more than the One Million needed, ( How soon does these other NATO countries forget that the U.S. came to Europes aid in two World Wars). Once we have the Troops in place along with more of a committment of Navy Warships, along with alot of B52s. Then we could in circle the enemy and finnaly crush all of Al-Qaeda & Taliban and capture Osama bin Laden. SportsCar39 Report As Abusive Nov 14, 2010 12:49am EST The sooner the better. Actually, it was time to depart after the first six months—U.S. unconventional forces not immediately having collared or terminated OBL & AalZ (and Omar). In addition to the fact that counterinsurgencies are simply NEVER winnable—no foreign power has EVER been successful at occupying or waging war in Afghanistan…not the British, not the Russians, not the Americans. Did we say NEVER and EVER? Yes, NEVER and EVER are the appropriate terms here. Naturally, Kabul’s politicians will not hang around very long after NATO departs…much in the same way as the last South Vietnamese “president”, who already had his bags packed and his assets waiting for him outside the country when the time came to depart with his family and entourage aboard a U.S. military aircraft. It is rumored that he had several million dollars in gold bullion with him aboard said aircraft. Can al Qaeda or the Taliban (or Pakistan) or OBL & AalZ be trusted NOT to covet Kabul and the remainder of Afghanistan after the NATO departure? Of course they can’t be trusted. In the case of the aforementioned South Vietnam—the NVA (North Vietnamese Army) was in Saigon just as soon as they discovered that the U.S. Congress would no longer appropriate military aid to the Thieu government in 1975. Said invasion of South Vietnam came on the heels of the “promise” by the North Vietnamese government of a peaceful outcome. We expect to see the Afghan “president” find his way to the United States sooner or later. Thieu died in the U.S. in 2001, having not even written an autobiography. OKJGp OKJ1 Report As Abusive See All Comments (6) Add a Comment *We welcome comments that advance the story directly or with relevant tangential information. We try to block comments that use offensive language or appear to be spam and review comments frequently to ensure they meet our standards. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. 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