Different Viewpoints on the Afghan Local Police (ALP)

A few days back I provided a link to a post on "The Best Defense" blog found on the Foreign Policy website done by Thomas E. Ricks.  The blog post was about an artillery battalion commander who was involved in setting up an Afghan Local Police (ALP) unit in his sector of operations.  The action of the battalion commander was heavily criticized by another blogger with extensive knowledge of Afghanistan.  The Battalion Cdr has wrote a response.  It is interesting to see the different views of the endeavor to set up local defense units - referred to as ALP.