This may be O.T but i was just wondering...

[RecruitMonty]

Good point though. I never really considered it a war either. I don't mean any disrespect to the troops when I say that by the way. They are indeed in a war! Back at home in the UK and the other Nato states you really wouldn't think a war was on at all though.

It used to be the case that if a country was at war you could see that much in the streets, in the way people behaved and in the language used on the radio, tv and even in the language used by the people. But today in the UK and in Germany (and maybe even in the USA too, I heard someone saying that the USA didn't feel like it was at war) you really cannot tell at all.

The fact that everyone, and I mean everyone, has a bloddy opinion on wether the war is right or not or on how best to pull out etc also doesn't help create that unified fealing.

[loktarr]

I don't mean any disrespect to the troops when I say that by the way. They are indeed in a war!

Yup! For them, the political problem doesn't matter. That's the problem of professionnal armys: only some take all the risks for everybody.