WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. and NATO soldiers have been ordered to take extraordinary precautions against being shot by Afghan troops, including designating ‘guardian angels
Sunday, April 1st, 2012
Western Troops Take Steps to Avoid Fratricide by Afghans
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Source: Los Angeles Times
Publication Date: March 28, 2012 | 2:28 pm
Link: Western Troops Take Steps to Avoid Fratricide by Afghans
Source: Los Angeles Times
Publication Date: March 28, 2012 | 2:28 pm
Link: Western Troops Take Steps to Avoid Fratricide by Afghans
Stephan: Just read the first paragraph of this story and think about what it is saying. We spend hundreds of billions of dollars fighting in a country many of whose soldiers would as soon kill our troops as look at them, and increasingly they do so whenever they get the chance. We are training these soldiers to be better warriors, giving them much better equipment than they could otherwise obtain, and we have to have troops guarding our trainers as they are training their potential killers. How crazy is this?