Why The West May Win Some Battles But Can Never Win The War(s)
Reason Number One: Western Stupidity In Iraq 
Call it stupidity or ignorance, it doesn’t much matter. Whatever label one applies, the fact is – there is an intelligence-disconnect that plagues operations in Iraq.
Examples of this are far too numerous to mention and extend all the way back to the initial "planning" for this debacle.
The most recent concerns the shooting death of the son of the Iraqi Governor of a northern province. Aides to the governor said American Special Operations forces broke into a house at 3 a.m. and fatally shot the governor’s 17-year-old son, Hussam. Maj. Muthanna Ibrahim, a spokesman for the governor, said Hussam was shot in his head, stomach and shoulder while he slept.
Hussam’s 23-year-old cousin, Uday Khalaf, was also shot and killed by the troops, Major Ibrahim said.
The deputy governor of Salahuddin, Abdullah Jabarah, said there had been at least two similar attacks in the area by U.S. personnel. “These troops usually use excessive force when they conduct operations,” he said. The Salahuddin Provincial Council issued a statement saying the attack was an indication of “how the American forces disregard the souls of Iraqi citizens.”
The Americans offered their condolences.”
It was just the latest in a series of operations that have resulted in the deaths of civilians or close associates of Iraqi government officials.
In late June this year, American troops shot to death three bank employees on their way to work at Baghdad’s airport. The Iraqi Armed Forces general command called the shootings cold-blooded murder.
Reason Number Two: Western Incompetence In Afghanistan
Americans and their western allies kill lots of insurgents, but they also kill lots of their ‘friends’ as well. Over the weekend, they killed at least 13 friendly Afghans in two attacks that officials said were mistakes.
Nine Afghan police officers were killed Sunday and five others were wounded in western Afghanistan when a convoy led by American forces called in airstrikes on the officers, thinking they were militants.
At least four other innocent people were killed in another episode when two mortar shells went astray. One of the victims was a district police chief. The dead were boxed up and the wounded were evacuated by helicopter to a medical facility.
In a footnote to the incompetence file…American lawyers in Kabul would like to work on the cases of Afghans detained at America’s Bagram Air Base. The lawyers are from something called the International Justice Network. They cited the case of Jawed Ahmad, an Afghan journalist detained for about nine months at Bagram along with some 650 or so – other Afghans.
None of the 650 detainees have been charged and none are allowed lawyers.
Reason Number Three: Western Arrogance Everywhere
no explanation needed
(if you can’t win the hearts and minds of your friends…then what?)
Your experience and sincerity of expression regarding a subject you know well, is always said with the courage and conviction welcomed by those of us in Canada who feel the same way and care about people everywhere. All men were created equal they taught us.
The importance of live must remain first and foremost or we will become the herd animals we are and run off a cliff like the lemmings do. I suppose thats what war reminds me of.
No one could say this any better than you so there’s nothing to say, other than thankyou for the reassurance of knowing I’m not alone with my thoughts of this situation.