Report: Kabul calls US assessment of Afghan forces 'baseless'

[unhappycamper]

http://thehill.com/blogs/defcon-hill/operations/265641-report-kabul-calls-us-assessment-of-afghan-forces-baseless-


Report: Kabul calls US assessment of Afghan forces 'baseless'
By Carlo Muñoz - 11/02/12 03:25 PM ET

Afghan defense leaders on Friday pushed back against doubts that local military and police units will be able to shoulder the burden of security operations in the country once U.S. forces leave in 2014.

Members of Afghanistan's Ministry of Defense refuted findings by the U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) claiming Kabul won't be able to maintain its network of military and police outposts after the American withdrawal, according to local news reports.

The SIGAR report, released Wednesday, cited numerous shortfalls in base support operations by the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF).

From the lack of qualified personnel to support the bases to not having enough equipment and supplies to do the job, ANSF units will likely leave many bases partially complete or abandon the installations altogether once U.S. forces depart, the report states.

[Bragi]

1. I'm sure they'll be fine

Goodness, why should it be any trouble for the Karzai tribe to mount a security force to oppose the religious extremists, war lords and drug barons that have run the place for the last 200 years? Now that we have schooled them for more than a decade on the basic principles of Jeffersonian democracy, what possible problems could there be that they can't solve on their own?

You have a good day, now, Kabul.