After reading the latest Tomgram, that's the question you have to ask about Afghan soldiers, policemen and security guards. The people we have trained or mentored are killing allied soldiers. In the first six months of this year thirty soldiers have been killed in twenty-one attacks by uniformed Afghans. In all of 2011, there were also twenty-one attacks resulting in thirty-five deaths. In 2007-2008 there were only four attacks leading to four deaths.
Most of these attacks are by one person who has become so fed up with individual soldiers or the conditions in Afghanistan that he is willing to essentially commit suicide in order to kill us. And these 'one persons' are scattered all over Afghanistan killing us no matter where we are stationed. One wonders how many Afghan soldiers experience the same frustrations but are not yet willing to kill themselves.
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