Saturday, February 25, 2012

Execution-style slaying of US officers raises disturbing questions in Kabul

After ten years of occupation you'd think that the NATO forces would have made a little more progress in winning the hearts and minds of our Afghan allies.

Apparently not.

The execution-style murders of at least two senior American advisers inside the heavily-guarded Interior Ministry exposes the extent to which the NATO/ISAF mission has been an abject failure.

The Interior Ministry was considered secure because access to Afghans was virtually impossible except in the role of translators. In other words, there is no safe place in the country for members of the occupation forces.

This also exposes the sham charade of the "training" that we are supposedly doing over there. The Afghans quite obviously don't need training. They are amongst the most resourceful fighters and killers to be found anywhere. The "training" missions are merely a pretext for maintaining control over the country's armed forces and thereby keeping a nominally "friendly" government in power.

It's time to declare victory and get the rest of the troops out now.

Let the Taliban train their own. They're much better at it anyway, and they've already got the hearts and minds on their side.

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