U.S. Officer Explains Why A U.S. Captain Was Deliberately Murdered By The Afghan Police

U.S. Army soldiers and their Afghan army partners set up a traffic checkpoint in March in Paktika province, where Captain Greg Escobar found training Afghan troops to be a challenging task. Army photo / Sgt. Ken Scar

Afghan Police Kill a U.S. Special Operations Captain “To Make a Statement” -- Mark Thompson, Time

Army Major Greg Escobar served as an operations officer in Afghanistan in 2010 and 2011, training Afghan police in Kunar province for the first half of his deployment, and Afghan troops in Paktika province for the second half.

He is a glass-half-empty kind of guy, as he makes clear in this July interview recently posted by the Combat Studies Institute at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Yet he believes his final mission – training Afghan troops to defend their border with Pakistan and keep terrorists out — remains “doable.” Excerpts:

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My Comment: So much for the idea of nation building. The sad fact is that it will take generations (and maybe a century)  before Afghanistan resembles a functional society .... and even then I have doubts that such a "culture" that is 5,000 years old can change so quickly.