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Afghan President Hamid Karzai talks to Afghans in Argandab district of Kandahar province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010
Friday, Nov. 19, 2010

Open quoteWe read President Karzai's interview as a call for an Afghanistan that eventually is stable, fully sovereign and self-reliant.Close quote

  • DOUG LUTE,
  • special assistant to President Obama for Afghanistan and Pakistan, speaking from the NATO summit in Lisbon. Lute was reacting to Karzai's contradiction of NATO's Afghan strategy
Photo: Allauddin Khan / AP | Source: CNN