Regarding the Saimina Virmani Column I say that the US government has done nothing except conduct a few cowardly attacks from the air which largely affected innocent civillians.

We are led to believe that they have been successful in ousting the Taliban and Al Qaeda forces. But how can they expect to fight a group of people whose sole aim for the last 30 odd years has been fighting the Soviet invasion.

And here, we are supposed to just blindly believe that after a few months of attacks they are going to be removed and disappear from the face of the earth.

And why don't we hear about the huge losses on the coalition sides as well, because just like Iraq they already faced a second Vietnam in Afghanistan.

Just think about the families and the parents of the soldiers who have been and still are being lied to. They deserve to know the truth.

My sympathies go out to all of the families in all warring countries who are losing their loved ones through war because of someone else's phoney warring-oil gaining ambitions, and the leaders just continue to sit on their backsides.

A Raja