Gauge of Progress

A report aired about US progress helping our Afghan allies. This story touted the level of literacy of Afghan forces, declaring it to be higher than the level of literacy of our South Korean military ally. That may or may not be the case, but it is an irrelevant statistic. Mohamed Atta was tremendously educated, fluent in Arabic, German, and English, a doctoral candidate in architecture, a pilot, and a bloodthirsty terrorist of the worst magnitude. I am sure many of those in Afghan uniform are quite well-read as well, but that does not mean Americans could trust these soldiers not to shoot them in the back.