Karzai Is Said to Doubt West Can Defeat Taliban

Another recent discouraging article on Karzai, this one about a related topic from The New York Times noting that the Afghan president has been pressing to strike his own deal with the Taliban and Pakistan because he has lost confidence that the United States and NATO will win, officials said.

The other recent post was on 6-8-10 one entitled "Karzai removes Afghan interior minister and spy chief."