Friday, January 20, 2012
After 10 years incountry
Only now are the US military becoming aware of a major aspect of the Afghan character. Never trust an Afghan.
American and other coalition forces here are being killed in increasing numbers by the very Afghan soldiers they fight alongside and train, in attacks motivated by deep-seated animosity between the supposedly allied forces, according to American and Afghan officers and a classified coalition report.The easiest and most effective way to deal with this is to just withdraw everybody from Shitholeistan. Sadly, neither the political nor the military minds work this way, so we can look forward several more years, at least, of wasteful and useless deaths and destruction.
A decade into the war in Afghanistan, the report makes clear that these killings have become the most visible symptom of a far deeper ailment plaguing the war effort: the contempt each side holds for the other, never mind the Taliban. The ill will and mistrust run deep among civilians and militaries on both sides, raising questions about what future role the United States and its allies can expect to play in Afghanistan.
Underscoring the danger, a gunman in an Afghan Army uniform killed four French service members and wounded several others on Friday, according to an Afghan police official in Kapisa Province in eastern Afghanistan, prompting the French president to suspend his country’s operations here.
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