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Certainly, those we are fighting know who they are fighting, and know what they are fighting for - more or less, but never quite less.
Many are fighting, or can be persuaded they are fighting, to end the occupation of their land. The job of convincing the doubters is not made difficult by the actions and attitudes of the 'forces of the willing'. The argument that there is also an assault on Islam will go some way to rope-in many of the stragglers.
When, in this campaign, it is hard to know who our enemy is, a disregard of the native doubters, those who wish for an end to conflict, and a lumping-together of all the dead as insurgents, irrespective of the truth known to those within the local community, lends credence to the arguments of the insurgent persuaders.
As we throw bricks at the people of Afghanistan, they build stronger and stronger barricades against us.
We cannot hope to fight them as a regular force, we cannot hope to fight them on their own terms. There can be no military victory in Afghanistan.
I used to baulk at withdrawal from Afghanistan for the sake of what would happen to woman, females in general, if these hard line, and hardened, Islamic fundamentalists were left to rule - not that young women appearing on popular TV here fare much better - but is the presence of foreign forces helping in the long term?
As we are heading for some sort of planned withdrawal what is being achieved by us being there right now?
What wonders are being performed behind the scenes, diplomatically and politically, in Afghanistan and Pakistan?
Would the popular disgust at the shooting of one young woman be lessened by us not blowing other such children to pieces?