Panetta says Karzai should thank allied forces
October 06, 2012  13:14

AP: US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta lashed back at Afghan President Hamid Karzai, saying the Afghan leader should say thank you now and then to the allied forces who are fighting and dying there, rather than criticising them.        

 

Panetta was responding yesterday to Karzai's complaints that the US is failing to go after militants based in Pakistan, and instead is concentrating on the insurgents in Afghanistan.  

 

"We have made progress in Afghanistan because there are men and women in uniform who have been willing to fight and die for Afghanistan's sovereignty," Panetta snapped, as he spoke with reporters traveling with him to South America.

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