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2019-10-31 Afghanistan
Report says CIA-trained Afghan forces behind war atrocities
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Posted by Besoeker 2019-10-31 06:47|| || Front Page|| [12 views ]  Top
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#1 Extrajudicial executions and enforced disappearances are sometimes necessary. Those complaining are the ones losing to rightful law enforcement.
Posted by Dron66046 2019-10-31 07:13||   2019-10-31 07:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Oh dear! Herb will have to crank out his Goatherder Meme™!
Posted by Frank G 2019-10-31 07:13||   2019-10-31 07:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Remember the Iraqi "farmers" who were killed while tending their crops at night?
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-10-31 07:52||   2019-10-31 07:52|| Front Page Top

#4 The operation, the CIA-trained Afghan unit said, targeted Islamic State militants in a remote region of eastern Nangarhar Province.

Could we have the "Not this s**t again?" graphic for this article?

I heard the same song and dance from the leftists concerning the US training officers that ended up running "death squads" in Central America. Humans are not robots. Once they go out on their own they will make judgements under their own morality, not ours!
Posted by magpie 2019-10-31 09:34||   2019-10-31 09:34|| Front Page Top

#5 CIA-trained Afghan forces behind war atrocities

Well, at least they don't spy on their president.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-10-31 09:42||   2019-10-31 09:42|| Front Page Top

#6 So they are fighting terrorists with terror tactics? Oh Golly.
Posted by Cesare 2019-10-31 09:49||   2019-10-31 09:49|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ The US Army School of the Americas happened to have courses on counter-insurgency as we practiced at the time. Simple idea, right: "This how we do it if you want to work with us..."

This became twisted into a fevered conspiracy theory of how we, the US, became responsible for all sorts of "bad things". As if the militaries trained by the Spanish colonial administrators...
(I am not singling out the Spanish here -- read about how the Germans, French, Dutch acted in their colonies if you want an eyeful!)
...didn't have a rich history of "nasty things" to do to revolutionaries!. Bah! Humbug!
Posted by magpie 2019-10-31 09:50||   2019-10-31 09:50|| Front Page Top

#8 So they are fighting terrorists with terror tactics?

They do not - they don't kill women and children.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-10-31 12:52||   2019-10-31 12:52|| Front Page Top

#9 Phoenix Program redux. Good. Chieu hoi, baby.
Posted by Zhang Fei 2019-10-31 13:00||   2019-10-31 13:00|| Front Page Top

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