U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Theresa Richards smiles after giving a piece of candy to an Afghan girl during a mission in Farah City in Afghanistan's Farah province, Sept. 29, 2012. Richards, a hospital corpsman, is assigned to Provincial Reconstruction Team Farah. U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Benjamin Addison
Amid Concerns About Afghan-American Partnership, A Story Of Trust -- Washington Post
KABUL — 1st Lt. Michael Molczyk had heard stories about “insider” attacks — and the Afghan soldiers and police officers who grew to see their partners as enemies. As a platoon commander, he couldn’t ignore those assaults on American troops, which during bad weeks were reported day after day.
But to him, he said, the stories sounded like news from a different planet. In Molczyk’s corner of eastern Afghanistan, uniformed Afghans had saved American lives time and again. They had developed a brotherhood with their U.S. partners that felt earned and unassailable.
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My Comment: It will probably take decades and generations of Afghans before the culture of the gun and religious extremism in Afghanistan is tempered. But as long as there are more Jalaluddins than fanatical Taliban soldiers .... there is reason to hope that this change will take place sooner rather than later.
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