Afghan puppet President Karzai has lost faith in the US and is increasingly looking to Pakistan to end the insurgency.

Karzai has long thought this, but his views were crystallised in the aftermath of last year's election when millions of votes were found to be fraudulent; Karzai blamed the US, UK and United Nations for the fraud.

Today, the US defense secretary Robert Gates warned that "We are losing our young men."

Gates also warned of "a high level of violence, especially this summer".

Today, Taliban fighters shot down a helicopter, killing four US troops. In Islamabad, a bold assault on a depot destroyed 50 trucks belonging to the Nato military.

US is defeated and disgraced like imperilalist Britain and Russia before.