300 And Not the Movie

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/afghan-war-claims-300th-british-victim-2006415.html

Another victim in Sangin, this soldier was the seventh of his Commando to die. His death counts up to 300 in the total of casualties in the Afghanistan war. This is starting to raise the question if it is a good thing for the soldiers to stay in Afghanistan, but with all the terorrist training camps, the people of Afghanistan still can not build up a proper life of their own, without the soldiers protecting them. As soon as the people can live on their own again, however, the ministry of Defense wants to pull the troops back out from Afghanistan. The Stop the War coalition is hopeful that the government will now take time to reflect and to possibly pull out of Afghanistan sooner.

I think the war in Afghanistan is pretty pointless. You take out the Taliban on one part of the country, they pop out from another hole in the ground, regroup and so on. It is a vicious cycle, since the country is so poor. People can not provide for their families with their jobs, since cops get paid less than a Taliban warrior. Along with that, there will always be the warlords that try to thwart the soldiers from establishing peace and safety, as they need the people and land to farm drugs. Afghanistan could provide us oil and gas, systems that were locked off back in the days when Russia invaded the country, but aside from that, I do not see any real benefits for England in the matter. 300 lives lost, for a country miles and miles away and what do the parents get in return? To hear that their sons our daughters died as a hero of war, someone that tried to found peace, but the inhabitants would not let them. Good job, good job indeed!