On the matter of why we’re in Af-Pak, you just have to look at it from the corporatists point of view — they have been making billions from this BS ‘war’ and they don’t much care who has to die or go without a limb to secure their profits. If tomorrow morning a law were passed that no company could make a profit from Af-Pak, just cover their costs, the ‘war’ would be over by afternoon. That’s one of the reasons I call the system we’re living under ‘crapitalism.’