by James Dubreze

Created on: January 27, 2009

Taliban & Al Qaeda find safe haven in Afghanistan

Obama should of course retrieve our militants from Iraq. This is a war that this country should never have gotten involved in. War is a business, and if a business is not making any profit why run it. I mean us the tax payers are the stakeholders, we're investing but we're not seeing any return on our investment, so who do we hold responsible ...our government. If our governments are the brokers and they're not investing wisely, why keep them. I know some of you might not like this idea of war being thought of as a business but I got a surprise for you, it's precisely that. I know there are moral issues involve, it's the most barbaric way of doing business but it is what it is. During war, lots of weapons are sold which creates a demand for the weapons manufactures. The companies who manufactured the militant's uniforms get lots of business. The opportunity for promotion among militants rises because more of them are dieing. The advantage for incentive which usually means more money for the soldiers becomes plentiful because they're constantly being promoted to replace dieing militants. The morgue industry is booming because dead bodies bring in more business. And of course if they are a war, they must be fighting for something and that something usually brings money, more power or territory, otherwise why fight.

As long as power is not centralized and the world is divided into separate countries, war will always be inevitable. The division of power which exists between nations and mankind are like two peaces of magnetized irons that repel every time they try to unite, ones ego will always wants to fly higher than the other. Although centralizing power can help reduce conflict among nations, it's not clear what effect it would have had on the people.

As of now I think we have too much on our plate. Knowing when not to attack is the best rule of engagement in military operations. It's easy to talk about going to war when you've never participated in one. As the president elect said "we focus our attention on Iraq when we haven't finished our jobs in Afghanistan." If we must fight a war then Afghanistan should be the one. Since the possibility for potential civilian casualty would be less in Afghanistan. The geography of Afghanistan is different from Iraq in a sense that Afghanistan is a country of many mountains where as Iraq is more of a plateau. From that perspective, we can assume that mountains could be

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