As a flawed President Karzai prepares to be sworn in and doubts over the war rise, Brian Reade flies to Afghanistan with Foreign Secretary Davvid Miliband..and gets answers to some tough questions
The swearing in of a president elected for the first time in a poll organised by the people for the people. Proof that the West's mission to replace the Taliban with a democratic leader was more than a dream.
Instead this is a day of embarrassment. The inauguration of President Hamid Karzai, whose corrupt regime faces allegations of ballot-rigging, a crooked police force, human rights abuses, bribed officials, alliances with warlords and well-connected cronies living in heroin-funded "poppy palaces".
The article continues here: Mirror.co.uk: David Miliband on why we have to win the war in Afghanistan
The swearing in of a president elected for the first time in a poll organised by the people for the people. Proof that the West's mission to replace the Taliban with a democratic leader was more than a dream.
Instead this is a day of embarrassment. The inauguration of President Hamid Karzai, whose corrupt regime faces allegations of ballot-rigging, a crooked police force, human rights abuses, bribed officials, alliances with warlords and well-connected cronies living in heroin-funded "poppy palaces".
The article continues here: Mirror.co.uk: David Miliband on why we have to win the war in Afghanistan
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