Hamid Karzai: 'America did not want peace for Afghanistan'
In his final speech to his cabinet and senior staff, Hamid Karzai, the outgoing president of Afghanistan, used his platform to disparage the American "agenda" and blame Western countries for the instability of Afghanistan, The New York Times reports.
"America did not want peace for Afghanistan, because it had its own agendas and goals here," Karzai said. "This war is for the personal interest of foreign policies and this is a fight of outsiders in which Afghans are sacrificed."
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