Troops from the Afghan "army" preparing for battle

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[D-Mack]

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If everyone is on weed nobody wants to fight

[marvenger]

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i'm no expert on the 30yrs war but thats what this video reminded me of. To expand your empire you encourage your enemies and those you want to rule to weaken themselves into submission by fighting themselves, until hopefully one day they embrace you for strength. Hasn't worked in Afghanistan yet.

[chr5648]

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If the US leaves and the 'police' get taken out, they won't be able to smoke weed anymore. I think but am not sure, that the taliban is one of those orthodox islamic sects that is opposed to hedonistic behavior.

[D-Mack]

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Training the police…
Central to the strategy of spreading the Low Intensity Warfare across Central Asia from Afghanistan, is the recent US program to ‘train’ Afghan police, allegedly to enforce order. According to a recent Afghan poll, less than 20 percent of the population in the eastern and southern provinces trusted the US-trained police. One taxi driver remarked, “Forget about the Taliban; it is the police we worry about" [27].
Jeremy Kuzmarov, an American historian who has written extensively on the US military, has closely analyzed the deliberate pattern of US training of domestic police over the course of more than a century. He sees such training, seemingly innocuous and routine, as an essential means by which the United States creates a loyal internal security apparatus of client regimes, fortifying their power and repressing the political opposition. He notes,
“As the US expands the war in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the Obama administration has placed a premium on police training programs. The stated aim is to provide security to the population so as to enable local forces to gradually take over from the military in completing the pacification process. A similar strategy has been pursued by the United States in Iraq. In both, American-backed forces have been implicated in sectarian violence, death squad activity and torture. At the same time, the weaponry and equipment that the U.S. provided has frequently found its way into the hands of insurgents, many of whom have infiltrated the state security apparatus, contributing to the long-drawn out nature of both conflicts.” [28]
The last point is the most essential—repression is a central weapon of US Low Intensity or irregular warfare, in addition to being an instrument for exercising state power. In Afghanistan repression serves to spread the war and domestic resistance to what the population legitimately sees as an intolerable US occupation force. That spreading resistance in turn serves to justify such expanded war operations as Obama’s ‘surge.’ It becomes a self-feeding process of spreading conflict, a US aim in Central Asia since the end of the Soviet Union.
Despised and feared, the Afghan national police have been operated by ethnic warlords paid by the CIA, says Kuzmarov. They routinely do shakedowns at random checkpoints, shooting and killing unarmed demonstrators, stealing local farmers’ land, terrorizing the civilian population while making house-to-house raids in US and Afghan military-assisted sweep operations. “These kinds of abuses fit with a larger historical pattern, and are a product of the ethnic antagonisms and social polarizations bred by the United States intervention, and the mobilization of police for military and political ends.” he stresses [29]. The CIA’s Operation Phoenix in Vietnam comes at once to mind.


http://www.voltairenet.org/article165577.html

If that's the plan... good luck with it

[LargoWinch]

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20km a year:
WARNING: GRAPHICS/MATURE IMAGES AND VIDEO.