Wednesday, March 07, 2012

MILITARY - Afghan Culture Training

"Marines Get Crash Course in Afghan Culture in California Model Village" PBS Newshour 3/6/2012

Excerpt

GWEN IFILL (Newshour): Next, another in our occasional reports from journalism students around the country -- tonight: giving U.S. forces a crash course in Afghan culture.

At today's White House news conference, President Obama said the furor over the Quran burning incident last month showed the challenges for allied troops in Afghanistan.

Dealing with those challenges and gaining a better understanding of cultural differences is the aim of a program based in the remote desert of Southern California.

Our report, prepared before the Quran burning, is from Carl Nasman. He's a graduate student in the journalism school at the University of California, Berkeley.



COMMENT: As stated in the video, the report was filmed BEFORE the Koran-burning awhile back.

That begs the questions:
  1. Did the troops evolved in the burning get this type of training?

  2. IF THEY DID, how could the burning happen?

Either those evolved did not get the training, OR the training did NOT include how to handle the Koran.

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