The Good War

I enjoyed the information about all of the fraud, waste and abuse. I also enjoyed the backstory on the corruption of the Afghan government and the spineless Afghan Soldiers and Police. Seems to be very similar to the Iraqi Police and Soldiers from my experience. Men who would sell their own mothers out for a dollar. This was the problem in my opinion in the Middle East. We were trying to help elevate countries who were not up to the task and have no sense of pride in their nations and most likely never will. You can't make someone care about the future of their country. The society either values it or they don't. Many in the middle east simply don't care about anything farther out than their next meal and how to make a quick buck. What really irked me was the three Soldiers the producers found to tell their stories and how all three of them were chosen because their thoughts match up with the message the show intends to tell. It was three blubbering service members who look back at their time with disdain. Cool, tell those stories. I get that. What I don't like is that there are hundreds of thousands of combat veterans who don't feel like these three and not a single one of those people spoke. Not everyone decries their service in the Middle East as some terrible injustice they wrought onto the world. Many of us know exactly why we went and what the mission was. A couple of interviews with those people may have counteracted the obvious bias here. We're not all sad sacks waiting to break down weeping when we are asked about it. Some of us are proud of what we did and we don't share those sentiments.

Some hard truths about the war in Irag and Afghanistan, and how poorly it appeared to have been handled, from our invasion to the attempt to build up the Afghan army. Interesting information, relevant interviews, though not as impartial as other episodes.

What this series exposes is the sheer impunity and carelessness with which innocent children are killed in Afghanistan. What really sbocked me is that kids and youth that were not even alive at 9/11 and who were born years later and often the next decade had to be drone bombed into a million pieces for a war they were not part of. Bear in mind that the Afghan people had nothing to do with 9/11. Bin Laden used Afghan soil for his training camps..this Without the knowledge of the Afghan populace. What this series shows is how wrong the war was and why the USA 🇺🇸 could not win. They were an occupation force that brutalized and terrorised much of the innocent Afghan population who were merely trying to go about their lives in the mud huts. I doing so, the occupation forces merely created more and more people who hated them..people who lost loved ones...some estimates put the number of innocent Afghan lives lost at 150000...each and every one a tragedy.