Comments on: Don’t Deal http://www.murdoconline.net/archives/6424.html Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:12:00 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Flanker http://www.murdoconline.net/archives/6424.html/comment-page-1#comment-337757 Flanker Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:38:24 +0000 http://www.murdoconline.net/?p=6424#comment-337757 So it's not just me? The entire idea of signing a truce with local Tribal Elders to back off their turf, "and they'll police it themselves" would be absolutely hysterical, if it didn't have such lethal potentials (and has!) for Coalition Forces inside the Stan. When I was in the Stan, the company deliberately did not employ Paki's as there was no sure way to tell their loyalties, too many Afghanis did not like them, and Indians (whom we did employ in significant numbers) were much less likely to be an inherent security risk, or vulnerable to subversion by local insurgents. So it’s not just me? The entire idea of signing a truce with local Tribal Elders to back off their turf, “and they’ll police it themselves” would be absolutely hysterical, if it didn’t have such lethal potentials (and has!) for Coalition Forces inside the Stan.

When I was in the Stan, the company deliberately did not employ Paki’s as there was no sure way to tell their loyalties, too many Afghanis did not like them, and Indians (whom we did employ in significant numbers) were much less likely to be an inherent security risk, or vulnerable to subversion by local insurgents.

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