Afghanistan’s Ghazni Province has lost a police station as well as an entire district worth of police forces today when the police chief for the district arrived to discover the station burned and every police officer gone.
It didn’t take long for Police Chief Mohammed Yasin to figure out what had happened. “The Taliban and the police made a deal.” All 19 officers had left, taking their guns, vehicles and uniforms with them to join the Taliban fighters in the countryside. They burned the police station and other buildings on their way out of town.
Previous reports had the Taliban launching a mass attack on the district and destroying the government buildings and rumors that the police had been “taken prisoner.” Taliban spokesman and provincial officials both agree now, however, that the police left as part of a planned defection following several rounds of talks with local insurgents.
Provincial Governor Musa Khan Akbarzada insisted that security forces will continue to search for the police and the Taliban they joined with. Taliban spokesman Mujahid insisted that they were long gone, haven’t melted into the countryside.
Wow that's hard core, the police in the US threaten walk outs, but never do it. Do they still get their 3@50 retirement plans? Cause I don't think they should unless they at least pretend to show up and work.
Wow! Givin' up on that whole 1st Responder Hero thing!! Must have been a tough beat.
There is a lesson here for American police depts: We, The People, are not the Enemy; but the Creatures you actually work for, are.
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So fun herdin these cats…. &….. then they are GONE……… For two thousand years invaders find them not easy to control…….. NATO payin $4OO.OO to $IOOO.OO a gallon for gas/diesel..!!! Most of it to bribe their enemies..!!! Two trillion wasted dollars…. IOs of IOOOs dead…. Muslim Vietnam….. and kiss your retirement dollars, soon to becum pennies………. .goodbye Suckers…!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Taliban probably pay better.
The former policemen have probably figured out that the eventual outcome of all of this will be the Taliban regaining power and they making their move to be on the winning team. All in all, I can't say I really blame them, though- I'd much rather be ruled by countrymen, however bad, than be ruled by a foreign occupier. The world sees where the Afghan adventure is leading, and it doesn't take much to see it's not going to end on a good note for the US and its erstwhile allies. If the US public experienced 1/10th of the death and destruction we rain upon the rest of the world, we'd not be so gung-ho to go to war. Europe knows what happens in wartime, and they're sick of it- there's a lesson this that we in the US have yet to learn.