WASHINGTON: The head of the NATO alliance publicly took on the Afghan government Sunday, insisting that the current Afghan authorities were almost as much to blame for the country's dire straits as the resurgent Taliban.
While avoiding mentioning Afghan President Hamid Karzai by name, NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer insisted that the Afghan government was plagued by corruption and lacked efficiency in solving problems. "The basic problem in Afghanistan is not too much Taliban; it's too little good governance," de Hoop Scheffer wrote in an op-ed article in The Washington Post. "Afghans need a government that deserves their loyalty and trust; when they have it, the oxygen will be sucked away from the insurgency," he added. The NATO head said the international community must step up its support of the elected Afghan government and the Afghan people
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