A Firefight Exposes Afghan Weakness

KABUL—When Taliban militants invaded the towering Kunduz villa of an American development agency in July, employees say they were trapped, besieged and soon were dodging indiscriminate rocket fire from their would-be rescuers—the Afghan army and police.

Four of the roughly 13 staff and security guards in the compound were killed, and five more seriously injured. Survivors blame the Afghan forces, and the German military for leaving the rescue effort to the locals.

"The Germans kept saying: 'The Afghan army has the situation under control,' " one Western survivor recounted. "And I kept saying the Afghan army is part of the problem!"

U.S soldiers carry a body away from a building attacked by Taliban insurgents in Kunduz on July 2.

Source: online.wsj.com...

I believe the Afghan National Army is deliberately kept weak and ineffective by the U.S./NATO coalition as a pretext to remaining in Afghanistan for longer.

Why would they not wanna leave? Opium! TARP Gas pipeline!