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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (R) meets Afghan President Hamid Karzai at the Presidential Palace in Kabul October 20, 2011
Monday, Apr. 23, 2012

Open quoteU.S. taxpayers have seen tens of millions of their dollars wasted by a corrupt and ineffective Afghan government over the past decade.Close quote

  • BRIAN KATULIS,
  • national-security expert at the Center for American Progress, saying the Afghan government must follow through with political reform in order for its agreement of a strategic partnership with the U.S. to work
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