Two men wearing Afghan Police uniforms have turned their guns on coalition troops in the southern Helmand province, leaving two dead.
The shooting on Saturday brings the number of NATO servicemen killed by Afghan forces to 16, this year alone.US officials say that many of the shootings are caused by personal disputes. this has raised major concerns with military planners whether the plans to transfer full responsibility to the Afghan forces in 2014 will succeed, or whether the country will return back to the lawless state it was in.
Although the UN spokesman Jan Kubis said that civilian casualties had been reduced by 20% in the first four months of this year, compared to the same period in 2011.
If all doesn't go to planned,the enormous amount of resources will have been wasted (see here for the most up to date costs of war to the USA alone: http://costofwar.com/en/) , along with thousands of lives of NATO forces.If Afghanistan returns into its previous lawless state in the hands of the Taliban it will represent a blow to the West's, especially Britain and the USA's ideology of intervening wherever possible to "spread Democracy". I think that it is time for Britain to realise that it is no longer a world superpower and it doesn't have the resources any more to splash out on expensive useless wars.
The shooting on Saturday brings the number of NATO servicemen killed by Afghan forces to 16, this year alone.US officials say that many of the shootings are caused by personal disputes. this has raised major concerns with military planners whether the plans to transfer full responsibility to the Afghan forces in 2014 will succeed, or whether the country will return back to the lawless state it was in.
Although the UN spokesman Jan Kubis said that civilian casualties had been reduced by 20% in the first four months of this year, compared to the same period in 2011.
If all doesn't go to planned,the enormous amount of resources will have been wasted (see here for the most up to date costs of war to the USA alone: http://costofwar.com/en/) , along with thousands of lives of NATO forces.If Afghanistan returns into its previous lawless state in the hands of the Taliban it will represent a blow to the West's, especially Britain and the USA's ideology of intervening wherever possible to "spread Democracy". I think that it is time for Britain to realise that it is no longer a world superpower and it doesn't have the resources any more to splash out on expensive useless wars.
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