Can we save ourselves from those problems?" Mr.Karzai also requested from his two counterparts that outside parties be allowed to participate in future tri-partite summits.

VOA: standard.2009.05.24

"When unemployment is 9.7 percent, when we are still digging ourselves out of an extraordinary recession, people are going to be frustrated, and they are going to be looking to the party in power to try to fix it.

VOA: standard.2010.02.06

"We are preparing stores such as rations and water so we can keep ourselves sustained and then it will just be patrolling out from the area to see if we can mix with the locals and find the insurgents."

VOA: standard.2010.08.04