Faced with mounting losses in the face of Taliban offensives nationwide, the Afghan Interior Ministry has announced that a number of police outposts and checkpoints are going to be abandoned outright.
Officials say that the sites being abandoned, 210 already relinquished and 200 more identified for closure, are “sitting ducks” that don’t really contribute to security and just give the Taliban places to pick on.
The big upshot of this is that outposts the police couldn’t defend are often overrun by the Taliban, who loot arms from them. Presumably the Afghan police will take the weapons when they withdraw from these. It’s not clear, however, if the other sites are any better defending.
Either way this is a move long advocated by the US, who have argued the Afghan military wastes too much energy trying to defend the country and should just be helping with US offensives.
Oh, by all means, take advice from the US military on how to fix Afghanistan…..
It’s good advice though. Why sit there and wait to be blown up at an outpost?
The US wants them to leave the outposts and join their offensives, then get blown up somewhere else. What’s the difference?
The Afghanis are fighting the Taliban either way. It’s better to bring the fight to the Taliban ,than just sitting their like sitting ducks. You would give the same advice I am sure.
The Taliban, by the way, are Afghani also….
Now there’s an inconvenient truth.
But THIS time they’re right. ….
Watch your step Taliban.
“I could win that war in a week. I just don’t want to kill 10 million people,” Trump said. “I have plans on Afghanistan that if I wanted to win that war, Afghanistan would be wiped off the face of the earth, it would be gone. It would be over in, literally, in 10 days. And I don’t want to go that route.”
F**k the police, straight from the Taliban…
F**k the police, straight from the Taliban…