Posted on 11/08/2015 5:43:26 PM PST by Mariner
ABUL/ZARAGOZA, Spain (Reuters) - NATO partners are considering ways of beefing up their training and assistance mission in Afghanistan as concern grows over the ability of local forces to fight an escalating insurgency by Taliban militants, according to officials in Brussels and Kabul.
The Taliban's success in seizing the northern city of Kunduz in late September and holding it for several days caused shock among Afghanistan's international partners, who have invested billions of dollars trying to create a security force capable of standing on its own.
"The situation is sobering, it is not as stable as we hoped it would be," said General Hans-Lothar Domroese, a veteran of Afghanistan who is Germany's second-most senior general in the NATO alliance.
Speaking at the margins of a NATO exercise in Spain, he said weak government control in many areas and corruption were making the job of reinforcing security more difficult, but added: "If we don't stay, they will drift into a maelstrom, and there is a significant danger that they get torn away."
Ministers from NATO countries are due to meet in early December to decide on the future of Resolute Support, the non-combat NATO-led mission launched in January to train, advise and assist the Afghan government and security forces.
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Certainly we have no business fighting that "good war".
I guess that “Resolute Support” is not that resolute.
Active Duty ping.
The problem is, and has always been, that there is no ideological bright line distinguishing the good guys from the bad guys. No Afghan (and no American either) has been able to articulate in terms Afghans can understand why one side is good and the other is bad.
Without that bright line, the battle lines fuzz out and it just comes down to warlords versus warlords.
Consider history: The British debacle of 1838-1842. It’s not called the “graveyard of Empires” for nothing. The best
course for Afghanistan is to get out and stay out! The “Good War” my arse!
The Afghans have already reached out to the Kremlin and Obama has nothing to do with it.
They need to be bombed into the Stone Age...Oh wait...
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