Roderick van Domburg’s Blog

Only recently the Dutch armed forces got into major trouble when the Afghan police lost a strategic crossroads. Now that the Dutch reclaimed the territory, they’re building new police compounds and training Afghan men to arm them.

That sounds sustainable enough, until you watch this video update.

Mind you, I’m entirely for continuing the mission, but that video just made my heart sink. Are these the people that are supposed to stand up against Taliban forces that have been in training camps for I don’t know how many months?

I want to believe.

Filed under: Politics by Roderick
Tags: afghanistan, army, dutch, police, training, war