Afghan President Rebukes West and U.N.

Karzai is lashing out and beginning to refer to the U.S. as invaders. Well, we're spending precious treasure and lives to help this country, which this flawed leader fails to appreciate.

We prefer a viable Afghanistan, but our core interest is in preventing it from being a base for Al Qaeda. If we can maintain enough of a base in Pakistan or other place near, from which we can attack any terrorist group in Afghanistan, and help Pakistan if necessary, I say let's just pull out and let Karzai defeat the Taliban himself. Unlikely, and sad for the Afghans, but we should not and cannot solve every problem in every country.