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Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Thomas Walkom in the Toronto Star: Are we training soldiers for the Taliban?

"According to NATO documents, the alliance figures it has to train 23 recruits for every ten soldiers that stay with the Afghan National Army.

"Some are killed. But an alarming number quit or desert. About 20 per cent of the army bail out every year. Among members of the Afghan National Civil Order Police, which is supposed to perform the crucial task of patrolling the countryside, the annual attrition rate is about one in four...

[Lt.-Gen. William Caldwell, the American in charge of NATO training efforts,] called desertion and other forms of attrition the “greatest threat” to NATO’s aim of creating a professional Afghan army capable of taking over the war against the Taliban."

Full article: Walkom: Are we training soldiers for the Taliban?:

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