Unsustainable Afghanistan

Unsustainable Afghanistan - theTrumpet.com: "When the U.S. moved its focus from combat support to training in June, the Afghan police death toll began to climb as more Afghans faced the front lines of the battlefield. While more casualties would be expected for the Afghans with this change in tactics, a death toll jumping to more than 100 per week means that an independent Afghan Army is hardly a viable option at the moment.
The death toll is high in spite of U.S. support. Washington is trying to negotiate a deal whereby U.S. troops will remain beyond the withdrawal date at the start of 2014. But the deal could falter due to the U.S.’s frosty relations with the Afghan government over supposedly high civilian deaths at the hands of American soldiers. If the deal fails to materialize, the U.S. will pull out the last vestiges of its power there and leave the Afghan military to face the Taliban with minimal input from the Americans."