{"id":523458,"date":"2010-04-11T17:10:52","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T21:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=2244"},"modified":"2010-04-11T17:10:52","modified_gmt":"2010-04-11T21:10:52","slug":"annals-of-scope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/523458","title":{"rendered":"Annals of scope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Andreas Ulrich and Alfred Weinzierl, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/world\/0,1518,687416,00.html\">German Trainers Describe Pitiful State of Afghan Police<\/a>&#8220;, <em>Der Spiegel<\/em>, 4\/7\/2010:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">A functioning police force is seen as a prerequisite for a Western withdrawal from Afghanistan. German trainers, however, paint a disastrous picture of the quality of Afghan security forces. Too many police, they say, can&#8217;t read or write, can&#8217;t shoot straight or take bribes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-2244\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Reader SK writes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Good lord! Do we have to teach these guys how to do EVERYTHING? Can&#8217;t read, can&#8217;t write, can&#8217;t shoot straight &#8212; don&#8217;t even know how to take BRIBES! You put your left hand out, and you shake it all about. I ask you, what&#8217;s this world coming to?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Andreas Ulrich and Alfred Weinzierl, &#8220;German Trainers Describe Pitiful State of Afghan Police&#8220;, Der Spiegel, 4\/7\/2010: A functioning police force is seen as a prerequisite for a Western withdrawal from Afghanistan. German trainers, however, paint a disastrous picture of the quality of Afghan security forces. Too many police, they say, can&#8217;t read or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}