Know, i completely bought in to the idea that afghan security forces that they could be effective and then eventually afghanistan would be able to stand on its own. the problem was that the model was built on a western model. the idea that we could make an army that looked like us or the brits or the germans or something like that and, of course, the western model is based on having overwhelming fire power and exquisite intelligence. when that's removed, then they're not going to be effective. the best afghan unit i saw actually looked a whole lot like taliban and they had a u.s. army lieutena...