Still Training Taliban?

Ann Jones at Tomdispatch.com suggests, based on her own experience in Kabul, that the Afghan army may not actually exist, and may, in fact be a scam whereby an Afghan joins, takes the basic training pay, and then disappears. Some may even go through it two and three times. She points out that when 4,000 Marines went into Helmand Province this spring, they were accompanied by only 600 Afghan troops, and she wonders where the others are. She has a dark suspicion that no such army tens of thousands strong even exists. The US may even have trained persons who then defected to the Taliban.

  Juan Cole

To whose surprise?

Sibel Edmonds claims that US agents were still supporting al Qaeda up to 9/11. Just thought I’d throw that in.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.