[Skybird]

Not one detail in that movie surprises me a bit.

See the confidence and self-reliance in their habitus, and the open smiles of one or two men on the truck in the beginning. A loosing army looks different. I hoped they at least would look stressed or tensed. But nothing.

Throughout all medieval, Christian armies might have had the better weapons, but moral and fightign spirit of Muslim armies was superior to that of the Christians. This differences was even more obvious with the Ottoman armies. Today: the one party tries to minimize it's losses and fears death. The other embraces the possebility to be killed in combat.

if they manage to regain Afghan's trust on larger scale than just a major part of the Pashtuns, by introducing social work, health care and education like Hezbollah does in Lebanon, NATO has lost.

It was a stupid idea of NATO to take over from ISAF anyway. The worst of all options, to be precise.