Will there ever be an ending?

After finishing The Forever War by Dexter Filkins I was left with the question in terms of current situations what forever means. Dexter spends ruffly 7 years traveling around Iraq and interviewing as many people as he could. Some of his time was spent before September 11th and the majority was spent there after September 11th. But even before the US invaded Iraq there was a war still going on between the different cultures and their customs as well as invading countries. The land has seen many violent years that it may never be able to recover from due to the fact that there seems to be always a new situation that they feel warrant war. What Filkins warns Americans through this book is the fact that not all of the native people in Iraq are intending harm for Americans. Although he does not come out and say it directly he lets the reader discover on their own that in this situation like in most any war there are completely innocent civilians that are used and murdered. He does point out that our soldiers are in fact soliders train to kill and to use they are protecting our country but to these innocent civilians they may stand as a threat. One of the main facts that opened my eyes to the Iraq war was the fact that in any problem there are always multiple viewpoints and what we as Americans see protection from terrorist others may see the potential for death, murder, destruction, disrespect and above all a threat to their home and culture. There is nothing more frightening that the thought of losing everything you have spent your entire life working for and living through. The Forever War uncovers the truth about Iraq in a way that just tells the facts and allows the reader to discover the truth for themselves.