I forgot to note the extensive interview Hamid Karzai gave to Time back in mid-August. He blames the West for ‘extremism’:

The moderates were undermined, not allowed. Patriotism, Afghan history and nationalism was called atheism. It was undermined. The more you betrayed Afghanistan, the more you spoke of radicalism, the more you went away from Afghan history, the better you were treated. And that’s what we are paying for now.