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I can see how someone who has never been would think that. You are looking at something you don't understand from afar and trying to make sense out of it.

That is becoming a tired refrain Thor. The fact remains that a decade on islamic terrorism has spread and not diminished, Afghanistan is still a shit hole, and there is no meaningful or lasting results anybody can point to - having been there or not. Like it or not Thor, we live in a democracy and the citizens of that democracy have to be pleased with the effort and we can choose to replace those politicians who are not delivering results.

Besides, you always make it sound like there is some deep mystery to understand in war - there is not. Its just people killing people. Its simple and it is easy to make sens out of it.

This is war, Andrew. Mistakes, terrible mistakes, happen. As I have said before, this is the ugly side of war. If you don't like the look of it, then don't look. In the end the fact remains that are there and, as long as we are there, the war needs to be fought. Even if it upsets the sensibilities of the ignorant. Just because war is ugly and mistakes happen does not mean it cannot be harshly criticized for lack of results or for its idiotic cruelty. As a citizen of a country that uses my money to pay for this ongoing tragedy it is my duty to criticize it and to never let up criticizing it until either they leave or results or achieved.

Sorry Thor, but it sounds like you are copying and pasting your comments from a book of military slogans. Just more meaningless words that do not change the reality of the situation.


Agreed. I don't think the Afghanis are worth the blood that is being spilled for them. On the contrary, the blood of these children is worth more than the blood of those who foolishly die and kill for empire/corporations ever will be.

Andrew