TALIBAN FIGHT BETTER THAN OUR AFGHAN ARMY

"... "their" Afghans are the fierce fighters of history books and legend and "ours", despite billions of dollars and massive training efforts, are not. This puzzling situation had its parallel in Vietnam decades ago when American military advisors regularly claimed they would give up a division of U.S.-trained South Vietnamese forces for a single battalion of "VC."
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175111