WASHINGTON (AFP) - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said in a new interview Friday that the Afghan government of President Hamid Karzai had not got out of a "bunker" to rebuild the war-torn country.
Obama also said in the interview with CNN to be broadcast in full this weekend that the Bush administration had allowed Al-Qaeda and the Taliban to regroup, by diverting vital US forces to the war in Iraq.
"I think the Karzai government has not gotten out of the bunker and helped to organize Afghanistan and (the) government, the judiciary, police forces, in ways that would give people confidence," Obama said.
"So there are a lot of problems there," he added, ahead of an expected visit to Afghanistan and Iraq which he is due to make in the coming weeks, details of which have not been made public for security reasons.
"A big chunk of the issue is that we allowed the Taliban and Al-Qaeda to regenerate itself when we had them on the ropes," Obama went on to say.
"That was a big mistake and it's one I'm going to correct when I'm president.".......
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