I think that one reason we have continued to suffer casualties in Iraq, and Afghanistan is due to excessive meddling of the media, politicians, and too few of combat troops to do the job. Since written history, war has been hell. People die, thats the point of it. Lots of terrible things happen. Lots of those things happen to strike fear into the enemy. Lots of war crimes were committed by all sides in every war up to now. The difference has been, the loser is the criminal, the winners are not brought up on charges on the scale that the loser, aka bad guys are. Now, we have the media up our butt, in about every conflict since, and including vietnam, and everytime our guys try to do their job, we have Jane Fondas crying foul. Then we have politicians with these retarded rules of engagement, to make everyone feel warm and fuzzy. Fight, but dont hurt anyone's feelings. WTF? Then we have insufficient numbers sent there. We relied on locals to help with the hunt for Bin Laden back at Tora Bora. Look how that panned out. Had we used the right number of troops for the job, Bin Laden's head would of been paraded in Washington in 2002. Someone dig up Patton, clone him, and let Blood'n Guts run it like it should be. There wont be any more problems after that. Even the Chinese and Russians would be scared of us,lol.