The US has always used a thin veneer of "freedom and justice" to mask its aggressions against defenseless nations, be they in the Latin America or in the Middle East. In reality, America has and is behaving just like any other brutal aggressor throughout human history. Three distinct categories participants have emerged from the current American wars of occupation: 1. THE WINNERS: Ann Jones is partially right when she observed that it is "mainly war contractors who benefit from this war". The US military also reaps huge rewards from these wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan: the generals get to strut around in all their combat glory, proudly wearing their combat ribbons and combat boots; the military industry gets to test out their new weapons; and, the soldiers can kill and terrorize human beings to their heart's delight which they could never do back home. Plus, I suspect the military has siphoned off their share of the billions of dollars that have gone missing in Afghanistan and Iraq. The corrupt Afghan, Iraqi and Pakistani puppets and collaborators are also winners by reaping billions in American bribes and payoffs. 2. LOSERS: The Afghan, Iraqi, and Pakistani people who are daily terrorized, mutilated, killed, and have seen their country destroyed by the foreign invader (America). 3. FOOLS: The American people who were deceived into offering up the lives and blood of their loved ones for the senseless insanity Bush unleashed in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan. NATO nations have revealed themselves to be dancing fools for allowing themselves to be coerced into participating in the American aggression unfolding in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan.