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Afghan President Hamid Karzai said that the United States and its allies still have a long way to go before their security operations are successful in his country. We have traveled far together, but the international effort in Afghanistan still has miles to go, Karzai wrote in an op-ed piece in The Washington Post on Saturday. We are not yet delivering security to large portions of the country. He said he had consistently noted the urgency of addressing the problem of sanctuaries that Taliban and other militants receive beyond Afghanistan's borders and that this problem was far from solved. He noted that civilian casualties in the war were harming the anti-insurgent effort. While acknowledging that the top US military commander in the country, General Stanley McChrystal, had done a lot to address the problem, Karzai said more needed to be done.
