Hm, just wanted to put this out there and see what are your opinions.

But let me ask you this, if someone attacks you and your family, what do you do, do you just stand there and let the attackers run over you, or do you fight back with all you've got ?

Isn't it so that you receive what you give (most of the time) ?

So I was thinking, in the case of Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda and the US was on terror.

From what I've learned the US and the coallition forces are trying to eradicate Al-Qaeda from the surface of earth. I'm not the slightest surprised that this really leads to even more anger and willingness to attack US and US friendly parties by Al-Qaeda and their supporters.

I was thinking, what if the US forces stopped killing and stopped attacking, but rather did their best to help building infrastructure, social systems, providing a higher standard of living etc.  Would not this make the people of Afghanistan welcome the US more, and the urge to do terrorist attack etc. would be reduced ?

After all, who wants to kill your helping hand ? But the attacking hand, who wants to be kind to it ?

Sure enough, the 9-11 attacks was devastating, but haven't there been enough killings now. There's been so many reports about drone attacks, and innocent people being killed by the US. Would it not make sense to stop waging war against 'terrorism' if the goal was to stop terrorism ?

Or perhaps there really is no wish for peace, because what should the US forces do if there was peace everywhere ?

What do you think ?