KARZIA FLOUTS U.S. INFLUENCE

"... Karzai is putting distance between himself and his American sponsors... Even as Mr. Obama pours tens of thousands of additional American troops into the country to help defend Mr. Karzai’s government, Mr. Karzai now often voices the view that his interests and the United States’ no longer coincide.... Karzai recently told lunch guests at the presidential palace that he believes the Americans are in Afghanistan because they want to dominate his country and the region, and that they pose an obstacle to striking a peace deal with the Taliban... The American goal, he said, was to keep the Afghan conflict going, and thereby allow American troops to stay in the country... The recent visit by Mr. Ahmadinejad seemed designed to generate as much attention as possible... With Mr. Karzai standing at his side in Kabul, Mr. Ahmadinejad accused the United States of promoting terrorism."
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/world/asia/30karzai.html?sudsredirect=true