There are some but don’t let that grey scrubby hair fool you they age quick. Elders are tribal. Like old world Indians. Uneducated or dumb however you want to look at it, I agree. My nephew joined in 2008. He and I would email each other daily. I was seeing him brake down in his stories. “Uncle Rick, I have never seen little kids that never seen a store bought candy bar before” then by then end of first deployment, “Uncle Rick, if these scumbags could shoot I’d be dead every day this week, this place is shit”. Then he wouldn’t talk or write. 10 months he was spent. He’s still shot 12 years later. The tribes have little knowledge, less then old world Indians. That’s not the ones you want to reach IMO. It was the city’s with food, water, electric, etc. That’s who we were slowly changing back to what you and I look at as civil. Women were showing hair again, had jobs, attended school. This is a big step in one generation that never had much law outside of ours. Men were starting to take jobs that they would have been beheaded for when Taliban was still strong.
I was never surprised by the results. It’s like Korea, had we have left. Well just look at a satellite photo of North and South at night. It would all be black today. Look back at Germany in the 80’s at how one side of Berlin was from the other. For that Radical Islam crap to die off, we need to stay.
Watch now how the suicide bombings come back to the Middle East, they will be targeting us.
