Wrestling with green-on-blue attacks
Two Stars & Stripes articles today on the way that the military of both countries are struggling to find reasons for the attacks. The first is about how the leaders are trying to discern a pattern in the attacks;
“We’re going back through, along with our partners up here at [the Afghan interior and defense ministries,] a lot of information out there to try to pull together patterns,” said Lt. Gen. James Terry, commander of ISAF Joint Command.
So far, however, the analysis hasn’t been able to fully establish where the attacks are coming from or predict what units are likely to be hit by them, he said. According to NATO figures, about 25 percent of insider attacks are carried out or facilitated by insurgents, with the rest related to personal issues or completely unexplained, Terry said.
While they say publicly that they haven’t figured the source of the attacks, the other article kind of hints at what they think the problem is; US troops and the odd way that they don’t rape young boys;
Scrambling to respond to a spate of shootings that has deepened mistrust between Afghan and coalition troops, the Afghan military has produced a new manual to educate its troops on the ways of their Western counterparts, one of several steps announced Thursday to stem the threat of so-called green on blue attacks.
“In the area of cultural awareness, we are trying to educate our soldiers and to understand the sensitivities of the culture of the Western partners and at the same time, (coalition leaders) are working hard to teach their soldiers about our cultures,” Afghan Ministry of Defense spokesman Gen. Mohammed Zaher Azimi said….
Azimi is the guy who said yesterday that their enhanced investigations of Afghans has been going on for six months. So they’re going to hand a manual to a bunch of illiterate goat herders about the US culture.
But, they’re acting like it’s a cultural thing, when it’s really a war thing. The Afghan government even admits that at least 25% of the attacks are inspired by the Taliban, so why have sensitivity training when that’s the cause? I wonder if the manual will explain that in our culture we don’t shoot each other on a whim.
Category: Terror War
Slaughtering other people is simply the national pastime in Muslim countries. It’s what they do for entertainment and exercise.
This ain’t war, it’s cold blooded murder of our troops and coalition forces.
F**k them is what I say.
We cannot get out of that turd hole soon enough.
Last winter, I gave every Tuesday night to “Bomb Patrol Afghanistan”, which was done by a civilian film crew who wanted to follow a REAL EOD team and honor those guys by showing us at home what they were going through.
Several of the men on EOD platoon (732) said at one point or another that they were not allowed to engage the Taliban, but had to wait until they themselves were being shot at. Everything I saw was a lesson in how a hidden enemy can create a lethal ambush by simply using delaying tactics. I kept asking myself if they can’t engage, why the hell are we over there? Why?