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We passed a milestone in Afghanistan this week. On Tuesday, the 1,000th US soldier died in Afghanistan. You can read the MSNBC article (NYTimes article, actually) here.
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Funny, I thought our mandate to Washington in the last presidential election was that we wanted out of Iraq and out of Afghanistan. Instead, we're increasing the troops in the latter, and are dragging our heels on drawing down in the former. Our boys are getting killed at an increasingly young age (according to the article), and we aren't winning the war in either country. So what are we dying for?
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
One Thousand and Counting
We passed a milestone in Afghanistan this week. On Tuesday, the 1,000th US soldier died in Afghanistan. You can read the MSNBC article (NYTimes article, actually) here.
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Funny, I thought our mandate to Washington in the last presidential election was that we wanted out of Iraq and out of Afghanistan. Instead, we're increasing the troops in the latter, and are dragging our heels on drawing down in the former. Our boys are getting killed at an increasingly young age (according to the article), and we aren't winning the war in either country. So what are we dying for?
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