Afghans Ask Obama: 'What Does America Want From Us?'

Obama: “Isn’t America here helping the Afghans free themselves from the Taliban?”

Obama:My counter question always triggered a raucous laughter and the charge that I didn’t want to tell the truth. I gradually realized that many Afghans, among them high-level government officials and well-educated young people, believe that the United States is instigating terror in Islamic countries to keep them mired in constant internal wars, rendering them weak and marginalized.