SubscribeIf you would have guessed eight years ago when the United States invaded Afghanistan that the year 2009 would have been the deadliest for our service members, you must be some kind of military genius or something.
More than 312 American soldiers died in Afghanistan last year — nearly twice as many as in 2008. In Iraq, only 150 Americans lost their lives, half as many as the year before. Military officials and analysts predict the trend will continue into 2010 as the U.S. continues to draw down forces in Iraq and build up troop levels in Afghanistan as part of President Obama’s new military strategy there.
Thanks to the fact that the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner President Barack Obama is pulling the troops out of Iraq so that they can now go die in Afghanistan, I expect this number to only go up. It stands to reason that the more troops he sends to Afghanistan, the more that will die.
Who knew that sending service members to go die needlessly in Afghanistan instead of Iraq was the “Change” that we were voting for?
I sure didn’t.
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Ryan
/ January 1, 2010We were fooled :( Although, I don’t think the alternative would have been any better.
Lee B.
/ January 1, 2010Regardless of which administration is involved, I am dumbfounded by three points on Afghanistan:
1. Other than pretty shallow gestures, the rest of the world seems like they could give a flying shit about what goes on here.
2. This endevour combined with the moronic and titanic scale expenditures that our president has shown his fondness for are breaking us- we just can’t afford to be the world’s cop any more
3. Once again we ignore history- you can’t do shit for these folks with their tribal mentalities and extremely corrupt methodologies. The place will forever fester and churn.
best just to randomly carpet bomb the shit out of it until there’s nothing left to cling to.