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2009-07-13 Afghanistan

Taliban saved us from terrorizing police: Afghans

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Posted by Fred 2009-07-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
File under: Taliban

#1 IIRC, this was a feature that got the taliban regime support in rural provinces. Wasn't the first major PR success of mullah omar hanging a couple local warlords who had been infighting over who would buttfark a young boy?

Posted by anonymous5089 2009-07-13 07:09|| 2009-07-13 07:09|| Front Page Top

#2 A big problem is that there is no "national sense", so police are just another tribe, muscling in the locals. That's how the locals see it, and worse, that is how the police see it.

It is so entrenched that even the communist trick of training orphans to be national police had only marginal success, with the same problem in eastern Europe.

The best bet would have been if right from the onset, the US had started training tens of thousands of urban children in western oriented boarding schools, with an eye to them becoming a future generation of political, military and police leaders.

The twist would be not indoctrination, but persuasion that it is a better, more efficient way of doing things than tribalism.

Posted by Anonymoose 2009-07-13 10:48|| 2009-07-13 10:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Sounds fishy to me.

Posted by Richard of Oregon 2009-07-13 11:20|| 2009-07-13 11:20|| Front Page Top

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