Few people understand why it is inevitable that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will not end in victory for the United States of America and Britain.
Im not a journalist, but I did fight as a soldier in one war against insurgents; and in another civil war my business suffered devastating losses when caught-up between the two factions. In both these wars, I witnessed the suffering of neutral civilians. Because I was intimately and personally involved in these two wars not just as an observer I believe I am especially qualified to explain in down-to-earth terms what is going wrong with the Afghanistan and Iraq wars today.
Both these past wars were lost to the terrorists, and I see chilling similarities in what happened back then to what is happening in Afghanistan and Iraq today. When youre out there; patrolling, and winning scrappy, bloody little battles on the ground, or managing the war politically or militarily you just dont appreciate why the war isnt coming to an end. Casting my mind back, and comparing what happened then to whats happening today, why its all going wrong becomes clear.
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Throughout the war on terror I fought in ...