Afghans and they are good, taliban are good fighters, very much the same thing, they didn t fight good for us but they fought good for themselves and took a lot of money from us. i asked general, we ve got to get out of there, they been there 20 years, we ve got to get out of there. they are fighting for their country, sir. i said that s right, i guess they are. two days later i was thinking about it and i said i don t know why, we had more blue and green, green on blue where they get their gun and shoot master sergeants and sergeants tra training, he said why are they fighting for us if we ve never had this problem to the extent we ve had? he said are we paying them a lot of money to fight? i had it checked. we were paying billions and billions and billions of dollars to these afghan soldiers, tens
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Regularly in afghanistan. now that the taliban are putting pressure on afghan security forces across the country. yesterday, of course, us soldiers were injured in a green on blue attack and insider attack were afghan security forces opened fire on us troops there. the overall security system in afghanistan is deteriorating greatly in the pentagon is finding sending 4000 us troops to afghanistan in the coming weeks and months to help stabilize the security situation. most us troops that will be headed to the country will be there to help train and advise the afghan security forces and their hope is to get down into the lower levels of the afghan military. for the most part, us forces that are there are training at the higher levels, core levels and the hope is to get them at lower levels to help them train the afghan security forces. a lot like being seen done in syria and iraq where there are us troops embedded with local forces. that s something that hasn t happened in afghanistan fo
Case. thank you so much. gregg: military official said seven military soldiers have been injured after an afghan soldier was under fire. they have been airlifted to a nearby hospital in afghanistan. both afghan and u.s. officials are investigating the latest attack on u.s. troops in afghanistan. the second in a week with u.s. soldiers coming under fire. pentagon officials and afghans soldier shot and wounded seven u.s. shoulders at the military base in the northern afghan city. an afghan soldier was killed and another wounded. the shooter was killed. afghanistan s ministry of defense as it is investigating the latest incident. it follows another green on blue attack last week when an afghan soldier opened fired on u.s. troops during a joint operation in eastern afghanistan, killing three army rangers.
we re going to stay until the afghan government can stand on its own and not necessarily artificial numbers. any reason to think that s any time soon? no, it s probably not. we re probably going to be there for a while. joining me is elliott ackerman, a decorated marine corps veteran who served multiple tours. he s a writer based in the middle east and the writer of green on blue. elliott, welcome. good to see you. you are the perfect person to talk to about this given your vast experience. when you look at the situation on the ground, the state of the afghan army and state of al qaeda and now isis, is this the right move? i think at this juncture it s the right move but we as a nation are in a space where we re having to redefine what have been our classical conceptions of war and peace. in 2015 the afghan war was still going on. five u.s. service members were killed in afghanistan this year. that s five too many, but it s a