They must not have avoided “arrogance” or respected Islam enough. And so the fool’s errand in Afghanistan continues.
How long are the American people going to accept our troops serving as a shooting gallery for Afghan jihadis who are our putative allies? Barack Obama and General John Allen ought to be placed on trial for criminal incompetence.
“3 NATO troops killed in attack by man in Afghan uniform,” from the Associated Press, August 29 (thanks to Anne Crockett):
KABUL, Afghanistan — The U.S.-led military coalition in Afghanistan says three of its troops have been killed by a man in an Afghan army uniform.
The attack is the latest in a rising number of disturbing shootings this year by Afghans soldiers — or insurgents dressed as government troops — on the international forces training them to fight the Taliban as the international coalition withdraws.
Training the Taliban to fight the Taliban.
Similar “insider attacks” have been rising sharply, with 34 of them so far this year. Forty-five coalition members have been killed, mostly Americans.
At least a dozen of this year’s attacks have been in the past month, raising questions of a new Taliban strategy.