Posted on Jun 4, 2015
The Afghan Government Created a 30,000 Man Militia To Fight the Taliban
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This is what I read: Imagine a 30,000 strong militia loyal to the government is a good thing. A group with passion and will to fight for their country. There is one catch, they are undisciplined, commit torture, breaking many laws, and raping women.
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MAJ Ken Landgren - correction, sir. That's 30,000 nationwide loyal to fight for their towns or tribes. That's a damn sight different than a similarly sized Army unit. In addition to the shortcomings you already cited, there's the additional potential of some warlord or another carving out a piece of Afghanistan for himself and defending it with the weapons the Government already provided
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1SG Michael Blount
MSG(P) Thomas Finn - 30k makes for a nice number when you're talking to the public, but when you look behind the numbers, the picture's not so sunny. speaking of sunny - how the hell did you end up in Bahrain? Assigned to Mil Attache?
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The undisciplined, torturing, law breaking, raping bad(ish) guys will fight the other bad guys in Afghanistan. So what your saying is - Situation Normal.
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1SG Michael Blount
Is there a way where we can kinda flip the script and use "the enemy of my enemy is my ally" strategy here?
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Maybe 1SG, but what do you do with the enemy once they have defeated the "worse" enemy? Maybe we should ask ISIS?
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And this is new and/or different how?? They just have another banner to operate under...
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