On Monday last week, President Hamid Karzai's security advisor, Rangin Dadfar Spanta, appeared in the Wolesi Jirga session to brief the MP's on what is called a finalized version of a strategic cooperation agreement between Afghanistan and its most powerful ally, the United States of America. Many Afghans view finalization of this strategic pact as a significant step forward in ensuring against the return of Taliban or collapse of Afghan government out of lack of financial support and absence of adequate domestic revenues.

In addition, both Afghan observers and people also see this as a stride in ensuring against more intrusive roles of the neighboring countries. In general, it can be said that the agreement will lay the ground for continued interactions and cooperation between Afghanistan and the US as well as with the European Union (EU) members states based on other agreements that have been already signed or are going to be signed.

Afghan government highlights its success in persuading the US to sign accords on the transfer of control of all US-run jails in Afghanistan to the local authorities and Afghanizing night raids. But Afghan government is too short-sighted to realize that it could stop the US from running a jail or carrying out night raids in the country without a need for a strategic agreement.

But what is going to be discussed here is the fact that the US has refrained from pledging a specific amount of monetary assistance to Afghanistan despite president Karzai's insistence on that. The fact is that the US does not trust president Karzai and his government.

There is no doubt that the US has been providing billions of dollars to Afghan government over the last ten years and has remained the primary supporter of Afghanistan. But unfortunately president Karzai has not appreciated and used this generous support for the good of his people.

First, the president has continued to hurt the feelings of the US taxpayers by not hesitating to call them occupiers. Through a self-serving politics, president Karzai has remained completely erratic in his behaviors towards his friends and foes.

He sometimes has lashed out at the US and other countries involved in Afghanistan without any justification or appropriate reasons. His rhetoric against international community has sometimes even verged on calling them as an occupying force. This is true in his approach towards the foes- both the Taliban militants and other insurgent groups as well as the neighbors with intrusive roles- as well as he has even groveled to them.

Second, president Karzai runs an extremely corrupt administration that is unable to respond to the growing needs of Afghan people and deliver services to them. International aid money has often been siphoned off by corrupt officials.

As a result, international community's commitment to provide aid to Afghanistan has wavered and they have lost their interests in funding reconstruction and development projects because of the very rampant corruption in the government. Needless to mention, there is a growing gap between Afghan people and the government as well, as the people have been frustrated by lack of responsiveness and accountability by the government.