“There are, however, concrete differences between the U.S.-sponsored Iraqi army and police forces, and the Afghan National Army. The Iraqi security forces are predominantly Shia. Despite multiple appeals from both the U.S. military and the U.S. government to bring more Sunnis into their ranks, the Iraqi government has instead been weeding them out. In Afghanistan, the ethnic makeup of the army is more balanced: Pashtuns make up 43 percent, Tajiks 32 percent, Hazara 12 percent and Uzbeks come in at 10 percent, with the rest made up of smaller ethnic groups.
But many of the soldiers are still illiterate despite years of training and billions of U.S. dollars, and the desertion rate remains high. They’ve struggled to face Afghan Taliban fighters in combat, and their loyalties have been scrutinized after periodic attacks on Western military personnel embedded with them. Taliban units have been able to launch spectacular attacks on targets within heavily fortified Kabul and the endemic corruption within the Afghan government and its security forces has prompted concerns about authority vacuums once the U.S. leaves.
Critics of the withdrawal plan in Washington say a lower number of U.S. troops will limit U.S. ability to operate against Al-Qaeda affiliates operating in Afghanistan and gather intelligence — something Washington is currently struggling with in Iraq as it scrambles to understand and identify ISIL members and their allies, and line up possible targets for attack.”
These are just war games to practice for the takeover of America.
It will
Of course it can. In fact, you can bank on it.
Afghanistan...where big nations go to die.
Iraq has 32.58 million people with PETROLEUM and natural gas.
Afghanistan has 29.82 million people and the heroin poppy,
TOUGH call. Both of their products are essential to the West.
Not can, not if. When.
Obama has already lost Afghanistan to the Taliban!!! The slaughter of innocent Afghan women will commence on the day the USA troops leave Afghanistan, My heart and soul ache and pain,,,,kmowing what Obama has wrought!!!
Well duh!!!
CC
Every time these guys and any other politician opens their mouth, their own words return to bite them in the butt. They are so sure of themselves at the time of uttering them and yet they can’t backpedal enough to get out of the way once they’re proven wrong.
I will answer the headline question. It can follow in Iraq’s footsteps in that the enemy will take over the country as soon as we leave. And it will.