Reply #11: It was a strategy which was supposed to allow troops to mingle with the population

[liberation]

and somehow undermine the resistance.

What the American leadership doesn't seem to get is that people don't tend to like invaders, regardless of the smiling faces and ribbons on top we pretend to put on them.


Half a trillion dollars a year seems to buy plenty of cool military HW, but not much in terms of common sense. Then again, the purpose of this war is just to fight it... the means have become the ends. Just like other aspects of our society, capital for example.

Somehow, as a society we seem unable to pull our resources to help our fellow man, but we have no problem doing the same to bomb anyone we don't care for much back to the stone age. I can't think of a more morally bankrupt approach to life than what we have devolved into as a society.