I'd have to agree 100% with General Dempsey especially since we have been training their soldiers for the past ten years but need to weed out these infiltrators. However, our main existence there is to train and mentor their Army so they can take over. If this is suspended that would mean our soldiers can all come home...Right? No. We already lose enough soldiers to accidents, IEDs and fighting off the Taliban so we especially don't need to deal with "insider attacks." It almost feels as if we have to go in reverse to fix this issue. Furthermore, I do not want to say for the last ten years what my fellow comrades and I have done was a waste of time and did not make a difference...because it did.
I feel if we back out all our troops now and leave then the Taliban would have won this war on terrorism. Let's take a step back from this serious threat, re cock and go back to what we originally planned on doing...Mentoring and training their Army so our soldiers can finish their job, fight terrorism in their home not ours and get home safely.
I hope our Commanding Officers will resolve this very tragic issue ASAP and get back to business as we cannot lose anymore soldiers to "insider attacks." I pray for all the soldiers who put their heart and soul in the support for Operation Enduring Freedom as well as the families of soldiers who never made it home...
You can read this full article at http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57514546/u.s-military-suspends-joint-patrols-with-afghans/
I could not agree more with this entire post. It's almost like were training the Afghan Army to fight against ourselves. I believe the NATO forces are so focused on making allies with people that their blind to the fact that some countries may take kindness for weakness. If you were in charge, what factors of Afghan Army training would you alter? Would you change minor things like training with mock weapons, or would you lean more towards eliminating the entire program?
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, I would like to say crazy things do happen that we cannot ever change. For instance, the Major in our U.S. Army, that went on the shooting rampage at FT. Hood in 2009. This was a tragety but unpredictable. I am not happy by these insider attacks and if I were in charge I would screen these guys more. We are training an Army that has been at war for Hundreds of years. I just believe that if you let your guard down at the wrong time bad things will happen. I do not think we should elimate the entire program but think we should scale back some. Thanks for following.
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