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...Last week I went to Jowzjan province where I met an 11-year-old girl who had been raped about six months ago. Her family had to pay bribes to pursue the case in the courts. Her sister told me that under the Taliban that man would have been executed. "We want the Taliban back," she said, "because they gave us justice." The Taliban did provide that sort of justice. They were much better in that way. Yes, that's true...
...reason why the Taliban is gaining ground is because people are rapidly losing faith in your government. They see it as ineffective and corrupt. I don't think the Afghan people would prefer the Taliban to the current government. They have reduced faith in the government, yes, definitely. But if you ask them if they have an alternative to this government, they will say no. The Taliban will never be in the eyes of the Afghan people an alternative to this government. Corruption is different; this government is doing its best on corruption...
...today. The province was in our hands. Schools were running, women's associations were running, clinics were running, hospitals were running, girls and boys were going to school. There was peace. We removed Akhunzada on the allegation of drug-running, and delivered the province to drug runners, the Taliban, to terrorists, to a threefold increase of drugs and poppy cultivation. To the closing of schools, to women being killed in the street. To complete lawlessness, and complete lack of sovereignty in Helmand for Afghanistan. Which condition is better...
TIME One reason the Taliban is gaining ground is because people are rapidly losing faith in your government...
KARZAI I don't think the Afghan people would prefer the Taliban to the current government. They have reduced faith in the government, yes, definitely ... [But] the Taliban will never be, in the eyes of the Afghan people, an alternative...