| I think actually all these wars are lost, only serve to increase foreigner number of deads.
Ocupying territories permanentely is not a good idea. In Iraq they fight eachothers depending their sects, Talibans are Gods for village people who are feeded by them with opium.... You can fight the people, not the idealism nor the madness.
Way of living of those countries is based in hate among their own and a fanatic point of view of life, where dying is not important if itīs made in name oh Allah.
We, foreigner countries can only hit, unestablish the political situation and trying to put some order in a few things, but too many time in a country finally makes that even those who did not see you like an enemy, can begin thinking you are there robbing their country.
Everybody can be then a guerrillero, colaborationist or whatever and finally we will always loose.
Do we really think a mountain goats farmer in the middle of nothing in Afganistan can understand that we are giving them freedom?. He only knows what their religious leaders tell him, that he has lived his life exactly the same since he can remember and that now the foreigners donīt speak russian, but problems are the same than always, each time foreigners appear he looses some goats for the resistence, or killed by an IED or a mortar explotion.
I think the idea was good, but rest of time is giving work to flag and coffin makers and suffering for families all over the world.
Here in Spain government says we are in humanity help, only that. But in last operation when Legion was, they had to shoot many times and killed people, that itīs not in the TV news, because the government used this peaceful message to take our troops out Iraq, although we are doing the same in Afghanistan.
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