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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
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Clearly some people don't want to think for themselves and must believe the motives of government to be blameless. But I think a lot of us are wondering why we are in Afghanistan, why we were ever in Afghanistan, what the long-term plan is, what the costs have been, what the results have been, etc. Whose interest is it serving to be in Afghanistan? Why Afghanistan and not some of the other troubled countries in the world?
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Really, you dont know why the US is in Afghanistan? Were you born after 9-11 when we realized that anything and everything could be destroyed by people who are determined enough to destroy them.
Afghanistan was providing direct aid to those responsible for what happened that day. Since that date there have been 0 incidents of foreign terrorism on US soil. some may claim alot of different bs reasons why that is - I am of the firm belief that you do not fight terrorism with police, fire, and ems. You fight them with the people who you pay, train, and equip to fight - in the US that is the United States Army/Navy/Air Force and the CIA.
I have no problem with a special forces unit there solely for the purpose of hunting down targets of interest and killing them, the simple fact is that if someone is unlikely to provide you with useable intel under interrogation then why bother taking them as a prisoner when you can just eliminate them - I wish there were more units like that. The word civilized war is an oxymoron - we would have lost World War 2 had it been scrutinized the way this war has been.
And so long as there isnt preventable negligence commited against our own troops, I have no problem with the Army not reporting every little detail to civilians who are too busy eating tofu playing Modern Warfare 2 to know the first thing about real war.