The tragedy of Iraq and Afghanistan is the toll that civilians deaths are taking on the hearts and minds of local citizens...
And also on the present and future mental stability of US Troops doing the fighting.
The "baby killing" mental problems that Americans will suffer long after the conflict is history are hugely underestimated in Washington.
Occupations are a brutal business...
Indeed, the Germans discovered this in France and Belguim too often in the last Century. And Germany lives, to this day, with it's Great 20th Century "War Guilt."
Of course War Guilt is almost always the exclusive burden of the war's "losers" as the winners (re-)write the history books by definition.
So too, the US will be a long time living down it's "Great Mistake" in the middle east.
It is only to be hoped that the eventual trial of the American War Criminals, who ordered this disasterous "optional" conflict, will mitigate the damage to the US, somewhat, in future years...
After Dubya & Co are out of office the world must NEVER FORGET what they did to world peace and stability.
