"The Americans had convinced themselves that they could trust their Afghan colleagues"

That trust comes from fundamental erroneous views about the nature of Islam, its teachings, its relationship to "Islamism," and a great deal more. But no one is addressing that, or is likely to do so. "AP IMPACT: An insider attack: Trust cost 2 lives," by Robert Burns for the Associated Press, December 4 (thanks to Anne Crockett):

WASHINGTON (AP) — It was a sneak attack, but not by the enemy they feared.
U.S. Army Capts. Joshua Lawrence and Drew Russell were inside a small command post on an Afghan army base, wrapping up a long day of coordinating the safe arrival of nearly 100 Afghan religious and tribal leaders for a peace conference at a nearby palace.

Darkness had fallen.

Some of their... http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/12/the-americans-had-convinced-themselves...