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And what do you know? I have some politics to talk about, which isn’t something I’ve really done for a while.

Karzai: Terrorists could regain control

DAVOS, Switzerland (CNN) — Unless more is done to tackle growing extremism in countries including Pakistan, Afghanistan could once again fall into terrorist hands with dire consequence for the region and the world, the country’s president warned Friday.

Hamid Karzai said “misguided policy objectives” of unnamed countries or organizations were continuing to fuel violence in Afghanistan, although he was confident al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was no longer within its borders.

Speaking in an exclusive interview with CNN on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Karzai also reluctantly accepted his image as “a puppet of America” but he shied away from accepting reported U.S. doubts that NATO troops lacked the training to combat the Taliban.

I appreciate Karzai being candid in the article, even if he does seem to backpeddle deeper into it a tad. All along I’ve been saying that Iraq was the wrong war and that the diversion of resources from Afghanistan was going to prove to be the real problem, long-term. While Karzai claims that the bad areas in Afghanistan are diminishing, other reports over the past couple years are actually stating the opposite, that the Taliban is returning in stronger numbers all the time.

It still irks me that we’ve not captured Bin Laden, more than six years after the attacks. There’s still a hole in the ground downtown left there by the Taliban-sanctioned attackers. Meanwhile, US soldiers continue to die and our standing in the world has simply been shattered by the mis-adventure in Iraq.

I so cannot wait for the adults to be given the keys again come November. I suspect the rest of the world — at least those not keen on our destruction — agree.