Dont Look at me…

Well, we’re at it again.  This week a new secret police force/militia was revealed in Afghanistan.  Made up of mostly local and area tribes and lead by the US special forces, the primary function of this anti-Taliban unit is not yet clear.   Are they secret police?  Are they Taliban infiltrators?  Are they a militia?  Nobody seems to be telling.   The LDI as they are now being called, was started by the US military and no information was shared with its UN counterparts.  Instead, they decided to give them bright yellow belts to distinguish them from Taliban fighters in the area, and giving the general order not to shoot anyone wearing a yellow sash.    The LDI is a paid unit.   The US threw a lot of money recruiting ex-Taliban fighters in hopes of changing the tide of forces and sentiment.   Time will tell if this is a winning strategy, although my bet is this is going to have serious repercussions when the money dries up.  Then you’ll have nothing more than a better armed, better trained, opposition to our forces and our goals.

This also brings me to another question.   How many secret police/militia forces are running around in Afghanistan?   We’ve already discussed the Karzai family’s secret commando force running around “raiding” poppy fields.   Is the LDI another group, or is it the same group, just taken over by the US military?   It has become increasingly difficult to tell who is who and with nobody talking, it’s next to impossible.   Pretty soon we’ll have armed the entire country and find ourselves in another foreign civil war.

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