Obama is making progress--just like Bush

"In Kandahar, the main city of southern Afghanistan and the heart of the Taliban movement, Mayor Ghulam Haider Hamidi said he was outraged recently to find out that some police were allowing Taliban fighters to sleep in their barracks. Here, officials say they gave police recruits drug tests. They excluded anyone who tested positive for opiates, but acknowledge that they were lenient about hashish and marijuana -- lest the district be unable to meet even minimal recruitment goals. Western trainers complain that Afghan police slip away from their posts, spend their time taking naps or tea breaks, and malinger when called to dangerous duty."