This is sure to get the Taliban shaking in their boots – from laughing.

NATO instructors who are training the Afghan security forces are so concerned about the recruits hurting themselves that they have only given the recruits wooden or rubber guns to use.

About 70% of the recruits are illiterate and many have never handled a gun.

Earlier, several recruits shot themselves in the foot or discharged their weapons while cleaning them. Now they train with imaginary guns, aiming at imaginary targets.

When equipped with real guns, some of the soldiers also sold them on the black market.

Honestly, does anyone really think Karzai’s government is going to last after the U.S. and NATO pull out?

When the recruits become proficient with wooden guns, they are given real guns, but the bullets are not available until much later.

That begs the question. How does one become proficient with a wooden gun?

“Pow! Pow! You’re dead!

How reassuring.