Susan Rice: NYT Article on Karzai is "Fallacious"

U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice took a hard line on Sunday against a New York Times piece that states Afghan President Hamid Karzai doubts the U.S. and NATO’s ability to defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Rice said that there is much in the article that seems to be inaccurate, “if not fallacious.”

“We don’t have any basis for seeing it as the New York Times portrayed it,” Rice said on “Fox News Sunday.” “We have every confidence that the United States and NATO, working with our Afghan partners, will defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan... Hamid Karzai remains an important partner in the Afghan government.”

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