(18.12.2015) The mission of the American military in Afghanistan was always devilishly complex: a combination of guerrilla warfare, social outreach, military training and institution-building in a forbidding and often hostile land. But it was criminal and inexcusable that Navy SEALs assigned to train Afghan police officers in the village of Kalach joined the police in viciously beating detainees who had been taken into custody after a bomb blast killed a policeman. One was assaulted so badly that he died.