SAS training Afghan troops Ruled out

[Gremlin29]

Rayna, I disagree. SAS shouldn't mentor traditional ANA, but they should mentor ANA special force commandos. Look at what an amazing success US SOCOM had in training and mentoring the Iraqi Special Operations Forces. The same can be achieved with Afghans.

I don't know enough about NZ SAS to comment intelligently about whether they should or should not be mentoring however it is worth pointing out that training foreign military/fighters is US Army SF meat and potatoes, that is their primary mission. NZ SAS (as with any other SF types) should stick to their mission/tasking. If they don't have a training mission, they shouldn't be misused that way, it would be a waste of a highly valuable resource.

 

[p.l.rue]

Pierre - be careful with your quoting, you seem to chop half it off and its hard to determine where the quoted post ends and where your one starts..
Its asy if you want to only quote a select amount. Highlight and select that text but dont remove the

stuff unless you are removing everything...

And on an off topic question, is it me or has this forum lost its Skin?[/QUOTE]

Could be, I dont know? what I do know is the only guys who are on message in Afganistan are the civilian ops. The millitary jazzed it for medicines sans frontiers big time with hearts and mind program 4 got slotted, now no medics in the field. The locals know there is a limited military application so they are keeping right away from NATO field service medics. U must understand these people just want to be left alone. They dont want to pay taxes into a carrupt regime, they dont have anything anyway. NATO steamed in approx 35 square miles of dope being grown when the talliban had the patch and reducing. Now dope is up to 350/380 square miles (CIA figures). The government passes laws which even the talliban would not take on conjugal rights etc. Im back out in the UAE in a few days then over into N Afganistan for 10 days will pass on if anything interesting occures. They are going to have to do a deal with these guys (Taliban) sorry my English can be rocky. Do U speak French. P.