This was the way I saw it going too...?

These are folks who are doing what they believe in - standing up for what they believe in. But they also see the downside of a 3rd world country that has been subjected to horrendous atrocities for so long, that it's going to take a lot to dig their way out of it. What they experienced is a beginning, not an end. It the first step on a path that will hopefully make this world a better place in the long run.

I know my answer won't be popular here. But then, I'm not one to try to say what others want to hear, or go along with the media propoganda that's aired daily all around us. If folks would stop and think through what's right and what's wrong, before hammering on others it would be a lot better world.

I'm sure that if Yahoo News was able to cover the French Revolution we'd get the same stories. It took a long time and uncounted atrocities and deaths (the Guillotine was invented just for it), but France stabilized eventually. Peoples in turmoil always do. People hunger after peace and stability, and they'll force it themselves if they're allowed to. If others bring violence to them (terrorist or whoever), then eventually they'll force those others out. The only thing anyone against the insurgency can do is fight, suffer, bleed, die, and hope, because the insurgency will not be defeated until the insurgents get tired of it, and they've just started a couple years ago, but they will eventually fail. All wars end, somehow.

Course, this might just be my optimism, but then again there really was no war that never ended and we did all manage to turn out reasonably okay today, more or less.