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5 years of war in Afghanistan may have relieved the countries rulers but the majority of the people dont want foriegn forces on their soil
A war that can never be one
In WW2 you could see the enemy
Not so in Afghanistan or Iraq
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I think that this is the fundamental mistake that most people (including the Bush Administration) have made about the current conflict. You can see the enemy quite easily in Iraq and Afghanistan because the civilian population is the enemy. By your definition of "people that dont want foriegn forces on their soil" those people are now opposed to the Allied forces and therefore are now combatants.
The ugly reality of the current conflict is that as soon as the Iraqi army shed their uniforms and blended in with society they now turned every civilian into a legitimate target. Why? Because you now cannot tell them apart.
Unfortunately the Allies are treating the very civilian population that picks at them every day as civilians, not combatants. Yet the civilians are engaged in combat with the Allies every day since they dont want them on their soil. This should be inserted into the dictionary as a new definition of the word IRONY...
And yet the Bush Administration gets accused of brutality towards civilians.
