dept. of uncomfortable truths

The Washington Post reports on friction between the Obama administration and Karzai (made manifest in Eikenberry's warning against sending more troops):

U.S. officials were particularly irritated by a interview this week in which a defiant Karzai said that the West has little interest in Afghanistan and that its troops are there only for self-serving reasons. "The West is not here primarily for the sake of Afghanistan," Karzai told PBS's "The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer" program. "It is here to fight terrorism. The United States and its allies came to Afghanistan after September 11. Afghanistan was troubled like hell before that, too. Nobody bothered about us."

I can see why they might be irritated by this - Karzai would be in a lot more trouble without American troops - but which part of it isn't true?

Comments

[ejoch]

A country putting troops onto foreign soil for reasons of national interest shouldn't be an 'uncomfortable' truth. Unless you're writing about an alternative universe based on a poem, possibly.