NATO is tired of their soldiers getting killed by allies, or enemies posing as allies. So now, instead of working closer together it's been decided the solution is to limit the interaction between Afghan and NATO forces. BBC has the full story.
I'm not saying commanders are wrong to take this step--you can't allow people to be attacked without reacting to it. But it is troubling after so much progress.
The goal of the Taliban and other separatists is to split the Afghan people from the NATO support. If they can isolate the Afghan people, they can make sure things go back to how they were pre-2001. It doesn't take much violence to terrorize a village into submission, and the Taliban are GOOD at terrorizing the locals.
By either instigating or infiltrating, they have managed to drive a massive wedge between the Afghan forces that will need to stand on their own, and the NATO forces that are supposed to be preparing them to do it.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see the trajectory at this point, unless both Afghan and NATO officers find a way to continue building the capability of the Afghan security forces despite this new diabolical challenge.
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