Who are the bad guys in Afghanistan?

via Pundita: When demons are in charge.

The situation described in the following news report is not limited to the British military; I became immersed in Afghan War reporting in 2009 when I read of American soliders telling their chaplains that they were being ordered to act like police in Afghanistan, which included not being allowed to fire their guns unless they were sure ‘Taliban’ were armed.

The horror, the utter fiendishness of this situation, is that the American and other NATO governments have been paying Pakistan’s military all these years, while knowing full well they were helping the military orchestrate the killings of NATO troops. So, on top of this, the troops must act in Afghanistan as if they’re police in a big Western city.