Another Clusterfuck in Afghanistan

[unhappycamper]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/training-suspended-for-new-afghan-recruits/2012/09/01/adc4ed1c-f398-11e1-b74c-84ed55e0300b_story.html




n this Saturday, March 3, 2012 file photo, Maj. Gen. David Quantock salutes Army Sgt. Timothy John Conrad, 22, who was killed in Afghanistan last week, at Conrad's funeral in Roanoke, Va. The 22-year-old Conrad was one of two U.S. military police officers killed Feb. 23 by an Afghan soldier amid anti-American sentiment over the burning of Qurans at a U.S. military base.


Training suspended for new Afghan recruits
By Greg Jaffe and Kevin Sieff, Published: September 1

KABUL — The senior commander for Special Operations forces in Afghanistan has suspended training for all new Afghan recruits until the more than 27,000 Afghan troops working with his command can be re-vetted for ties to the insurgency.

The move comes as NATO officials struggle to stem the tide of attacks on NATO forces by their Afghan colleagues. The attacks, which have killed 45 troops this year, have forced NATO officials to acknowledge a painful truth: Many of the incidents might have been prevented if existing security measures had been applied correctly.

But numerous military guidelines were not followed — by Afghans or Americans — because of concerns that they might slow the growth of the Afghan army and police, according to NATO officials.

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In other instances, the vetting process for Afghan soldiers and police was never properly implemented, and NATO officials say they knew it. But they looked the other way, worried that extensive background checks could hinder the recruitment process. Also ignored were requirements that Afghans display proper credentials while on base.

[WooWooWoo]

1. I'm shocked

I mean, I would have thought it would be easy to train up this army....as long as you ignore the fact most of the soldiers there habitually smoke hash, can't shoot, don't like to go on patrol, get resentful of the American soldiers they train with, are illiterate, don't like whatever ethnic outsiders they serve alongside (whether it be Pashtu or Dhari), don't listen to orders from Americans, and when they do go out on patrol, have no situational awareness, weapon discipline or rudimentary knowledge of how to conceal themselves (ie, don't walk on top of a grape wall and don't smoke cigarettes (or hash) at night.

[MajPayne2]

2. Having just returned from that shit hole

I would have to say this is par for the course. Things will continue this way or get worse the longer we try to impose western beliefs on a medieval society.