Comments on: Training the ANA http://sgthook.com/2005/11/30/training-the-ana/ This We'll Defend Sun, 20 Jul 2008 06:27:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 By: Texas Gal http://sgthook.com/2005/11/30/training-the-ana/#comment-4282 Texas Gal Wed, 30 Nov 2005 18:53:55 +0000 http://sgthook.com/2005/11/30/training-the-ana/#comment-4282 This is great news. I put this same article up a few hours ago (GMTA!) along with a couple others news items. I really am proud of what Americans have done for Afghanistan. It's got to be without a doubt the most challenging and difficult country in the world to transform into a democratic nation of laws. You can't even call the building of infrastructure .. reconstruction.. since a lot of what is being done now never existed! And along that vein, I couldn't help but draw a comparison the other day when I heard that the reconstruction in Afghanistan wasn't on track and had the thought that probably was because the US/Coalition in Afghanistan has a very different mission than the one in Iraq. Do you know if we have much of a civil affairs operation in Afghanistan or is it mostly Afghanistan Ministries working through contractors and NGOs doing most of that work? This is great news. I put this same article up a few hours ago (GMTA!) along with a couple others news items.

I really am proud of what Americans have done for Afghanistan. It’s got to be without a doubt the most challenging and difficult country in the world to transform into a democratic nation of laws. You can’t even call the building of infrastructure .. reconstruction.. since a lot of what is being done now never existed! And along that vein, I couldn’t help but draw a comparison the other day when I heard that the reconstruction in Afghanistan wasn’t on track and had the thought that probably was because the US/Coalition in Afghanistan has a very different mission than the one in Iraq. Do you know if we have much of a civil affairs operation in Afghanistan or is it mostly Afghanistan Ministries working through contractors and NGOs doing most of that work?

]]> By: Teresa http://sgthook.com/2005/11/30/training-the-ana/#comment-4280 Teresa Wed, 30 Nov 2005 18:07:45 +0000 http://sgthook.com/2005/11/30/training-the-ana/#comment-4280 Congratulations to the Afghan National Army and to our wonderful people over there training them. (especially to our wonderful people because they are doing a job the MSM has been screaming ISN'T being done). It takes time to create an Army and time to train them. I saw some idiot make the claim that since we give 18 year olds about 16 weeks of training... we should have really good Armies going in Afghanistan and Iraq by now!!! ARG! I know that the ANA will improve with experience - in a few years they'll be on track to take care of most, if not all of their own problems. That is excellent. Congratulations to the Afghan National Army and to our wonderful people over there training them. (especially to our wonderful people because they are doing a job the MSM has been screaming ISN’T being done).

It takes time to create an Army and time to train them. I saw some idiot make the claim that since we give 18 year olds about 16 weeks of training… we should have really good Armies going in Afghanistan and Iraq by now!!! ARG!

I know that the ANA will improve with experience - in a few years they’ll be on track to take care of most, if not all of their own problems. That is excellent.

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