“This government is Afghan, and the Taliban are Afghan; they should build the country together,” he said.I suppose that would be fine and dandy if the taliban weren't plotting against the U.S.
Afghans are concerned about more troops. They prefer the U.S. to train Afghan forces to take over. They also wonder why U.S. planes can't find the taliban. I wonder that too. How many of them are there? It's not like there's a million. Do they all live underground? I don't get it:
As Americans, including President Obama’s top advisers, tensely debate whether to send more American troops to Afghanistan, Afghans themselves are having a similar discussion and voicing serious doubts.
In bazaars and university corridors across the country, eight years of war have left people exhausted and impatient. They are increasingly skeptical that the Taliban can be defeated. Nearly everyone agrees that the Afghan government must negotiate with the insurgents. If more American forces do arrive, many here say, they should come to train Afghans to take over the fight, so the foreigners can leave.
“What have the Americans done in eight years?” asked Abdullah Wasay, 60, a pharmacist in Charikar, a market town about 25 miles north of Kabul, expressing a view typical of many here. “Americans are saying that with their planes they can see an egg 18 kilometers away, so why can’t they see the Taliban?” NYT
