War and Morality. Al Qaeda v USA

The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan

Yes, but if i lived in a nation that was largely poor and had offers of assistance from a nation that was quite wealthy, I may decide that compromise is better than futility. Depends how they invaded, who they were after, and if they were rebuilding public roads and bridges and building water desalination plants and electrical grids. I could care less if they were of my religion as long as they didn't hurt me or my family. Why should these poor people not want to have a consensus with us? I suspect that their fundamentalist religion gets in the way of it...which proves that it is not only we who are crazy.

It makes no sense. They are helping make sure that Iraq and Afghanistan were a huge waste of taxpayer dollars. My question remains...why do they hate us so much? WE are trying to build stuff for them, after all. We just dont want them to remain a fundamentalist religious backwoods nation, as that type of thinking is, in our opinion, illogical.

Yes I agree that we did more harm getting involved than we did good, though a case could be made that our soldiers received an invaluable experience actually seeing how these people live and that they are not all terrorists.If ideology and stinking thinking is the enemy, it be us.What did we expect to accomplish over there? Seems like a money pit!The Taliban likely will return.

I recently read a great book, The Next Decade: Where We've Been . . . and Where We're Going by George Friedman. He notes that the US had no strategy until September 11th, then applied the wrong strategy as it hastily tried (too late) to understand the world and the thinking and ideologies of people other than our own. (never-mind that we cant even understand ourselves)Friedman has other books too...and as soon as I can I'm going to browse skim read them all.