Monday, June 28, 2010
195,000 vacuum cleaners couldn't suck as much
Arnold Fields, the special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction performed an audit of the Afghan army and police. Nobody involved with those doughty organizations thought they were any good, but it turns out the audit showed they were far worse than expected.
Afghanistan’s army and police are less capable than U.S. and NATO commanders have believed because the system for evaluating them is flawed, according to a Pentagon audit.So to get the hell out of the Kabul Quagmire, we will have to rely on the readiness of security forces that we have been building up for nine years. And after nine years there are
The combat capabilities of many “top-rated units” have been “overstated,” and these units haven’t shown they can operate independently in the field, said the audit report by Arnold Fields, the special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction.
The rating system since its adoption in 2005 hasn’t “provided consistent and reliable measures of progress,” the audit said. The system was replaced in April, it said.
The U.S. has spent $27 billion since 2002 for training Afghan security forces, but “what I have read in this report does not reflect $27 billion worth of investment by the American taxpayer,” Fields told reporters yesterday.
President Barack Obama’s strategy in Afghanistan is connected to the readiness of Afghanistan’s forces.
“systemic deficiencies” in the Afghan forces, including drug abuse, illiteracy, bribes and extortion that have “undermined progress toward developing” units capable of operating independently.Barack needs to seriously explore different criteria for leaving that shithole next summer. Getting to the moon was an easier task than making an army out of Afghans.
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