October 2015
Afghan Problems
With so many urgent events around the world, Afghanistan is not one we wanted to see again. But its problems do not go away, nor can they with Pakistan next door. We are still there, 10,000 to remain, but with an essential task of trying to train a national defense force so that Afghanistan will not revert to its failed Muslim state position under the Taliban.
Training the Afghan army is much like rolling a rock up a hill. Not only are a majority of soldiers illiterate, b more...