For the USA making 'War is Making Money, it's a business for them. Never forget that!
Here is a letter I found today that says a lot:
When, before the first Anglo-Afghan war of 1839, Lord Auckland, the head of the British invading force, asked the Maharaja Ranjit Singh, the Sikh ruler of Punjab, to undertake the responsibility of invading Kabul, the maharaja refused; he knew only too well that they were easy to conquer but difficult to rule; that they were a mosaic of competing tribes, which ensured that no strong central authority maintained its power over them for too long. It is a pity that western leaders could not foresee in 2001 what Maharaja Ranjit Singh could in 1839.
Randhir Singh Bains
Gants Hill, London.
People seem to forget the Yanks and us invaded another Country, again!
Forget that they say "We are bringing them a better way of life" or "We are defeating international terrorism"
or "We want to kill Bin Laden, because we stupidly thought we felt safe and secure in the U.S.of A.
An Afghanistanis' point of view: A foreign power invades your Country.
People who work for those invading Armies are normally known as 'collaborators,
and make no-bones were receiving huge wages.
As opposed to all their neighbours scraping a living.
It has happened in most wars, and they were called traitors and treated as such.
War creates bad people and poets.
The 1st and 2nd World Wars were just wars and the just triumphed.
Most wars since, have not been just...'end of rant!.....
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Ps: An interesting post script written in 1849 by a British Army Chaplain:
A war begun for no wise purpose, carried on with a strange mixture of rashness and timidity, brought to a close after suffering and disaster, without much glory attached either to the government which directed, or the great body of troops which waged it. Not one benefit, political or military, was acquired with this war. Our eventual evacuation of the country resembled the retreat of an army defeated”.
G.R. Gleig one of the few survivors.