Check out the news on the Afghan police who were killed. Its horrible. It also reiterates the fact that police in Afghanistan are now targets as much as the military, even more in some cases because they don’t have the weapons to fight back. When we spoke with our former police chief, Stan Knee, he said the officers were almost on the front lines because they are the ones to stop the cars and look for explosives or to question suspicious people. Having been there and having met the officers in training, it breaks your heart. They also have large families to take care of and loved ones who have already lost so much.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) – Taliban militants slashed the hands and legs of five abducted policemen in southern Afghanistan and hung their mutilated bodies from trees in a warning to villagers against working with the government, officials said Sunday.