Afghan President Hamid Karzai accused the United States of failing to abide by a high moral "standard" as it carries out military operations in his country, while a top security official said the United States will not meet Karzai's demand to end air strikes.
National Security Adviser James Jones said such a concession would be "imprudent."
In separate interviews on the Sunday morning news shows, Karzai and Jones aired lingering tensions between the United States and Afghanistan -- allies in the fight against extremists -- despite a string of photo ops and work sessions with officials from both countries this past week. Karzai, along with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, met with President Obama Wednesday in Washington.
The Afghan president, on NBC's "Meet the Press," warned about the danger of failing to address an issue that is quickly becoming a wedge -- civilian casualties. He said the Afghan public still believes in the cause of defeating the Taliban and Al Qaeda but that "there is a limit to all of that" when civilians are being killed. - FOX News Story
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