Should Afghans be grateful to the US?
It is exactly 12 years since the US went to war in Afghanistan, engineered the downfall of the Taliban and brought a civilian government under Hamid Karzai to power.
But the relationship has never been easy, and it reached another low point last week in a public spat between Leon Panetta, the US defence secretary, and Karzai. Panetta said the Afghan president should be expressing gratitude, not co...

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