Some people, still hang onto the ideal that we are still fighting for freedom in the middle east, some people, ridiculously, believe we're fighting for our own freedom for the states.

But only a fool truly believes any of that.

I've become so lost in the sauce, I don't know what it is for anymore, if you ask anyone they'll say it becomes a battle to keep your friends and yourself alive, in that order. But what if you asked them before even going over, I couldn't even fathom the responses, because there would be a ridiculous multitude of them.

I'm lost in my own thoughts, I see an explosion, and I see the smoke, hear the gunfire, I know someone, on any side, is probably dying or going to die. And I ask, what is it for? Sure, some of them are insurgents, some are Taliban, and those people are repressive douche bags that want nothing but terror and power. But heres the thing that not a lot of people understand, they will ALWAYS be there.

"The only thing need that evil needs to prevail is for good men to do nothing."

But heres the thing, what defines, good and evil? From different speculations, it's truly a point of view. After we invaded Iraq and started killing civilians, even though accident they were, we became the evil, the defilers, the invaders. We went from a liberating force, to an occupying army in a sense, to the people. And things are so torn up, that you can't tell which way is up anymore.

But worse then that, we are here, so why not just let us do what we have to do?

It's war, and war means casualties, war means you have to kill, war means you must witness death, and possibly you might die as well. But big wigs get so concerned about only winning, that they overlook so much, they opt to use our own forces rather then nationals that want to help, when, it's war, and war is a large game of chess in a certain sense, so let the pawns do their part, and let the surgical teams do theirs.

When we first invaded afghanistan, and all of this is public knowledge now, it was written in a book, which is where I get these following facts, several teams of special forces, british sbs guys, and some regular army infantry man, with the help of thousands of afghan locals, managed to tople the taliban in just several short months, and the special forces didn't lose a single man, how did they do this? Because they did what you should do when you invade and try to take over a country or win a war in a foreign country, you bribe, befriend, and demand help from the locals that are sympathatic to your cause, and you make them help you win it, you coordinate, you win over the locals, you help them, and they help you, and then you take out the root cause of the problem you seek to solve.

And that is what those men did. But then they sent in thousands of regular soldiers, the taliban slowly resurfaced, and is taking back the country little by little, or trying to, and the soldiers are getting stonewalled by politics now, not able to do their jobs, because shit has gotten fucked up over there. You don't send many, what a few can do, and you let those few, do their damn job