I know you’ve read a lot of papers, but when I talk to people who have actually BEEN there or ARE there and they say that the quality of life of the people there is improving, I’m going to believe them.
You are choosing to believe that the war is purely economic. You have supporting evidence. I choose to believe that the war is not purely economic and I have supporting evidence. Yes soldiers are paid employees, but that’s not all they are.
There is truth in what you are saying bing, but you cannot declare that “this is what the war is really about and anyone that doesn’t agree with me is ignorant and misguided.”
To say that war is purely economic is just as ignorant as to say it is purely humanistic.