>>>>>>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124986154654218153.html
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>>>>>>SNIPPET:
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>>>>>>The Taliban have gained the upper hand in Afghanistan, the top American commander there said, forcing the U.S. to change its strategy in the eight-year-old conflict by increasing the number of troops in heavily populated areas like the volatile southern city of Kandahar, the insurgency's spiritual home.
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>>>>>>Gen. Stanley McChrystal warned that means U.S. casualties, already running at record levels, will remain high for months to come.
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>>>>>Defeat from the jaws of Victory.
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>>>>>Obama the Worthless really inspires our enemies.
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>>>>Oh, for goodness sakes. We were never winning in Afghanistan. There was just less publicity and fewer troops while we were quagmired in Iraq.
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>>>Is that why deaths in Iraq have skyrocketed this year too?
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>>Do you just make this stuff up?
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>>http://icasualties.org/Iraq/index.aspx
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>Look at the casualties in Iraq (Civilian and Military).

This may sound heartless but I don't care that much about Iraqi civilian casualties. It has been clear for a long time that the religious and ethnic divisions are fairly intractable, and it has been predicted for a long time that once we pulled out the lid might come off the boiling pot. This is the main reason we never should have invaded Iraq in the first place, along with the bogus pretext of them having been part of 9/11 and associated with Al Qaeda. Say what you will about Saddam -- and there is plenty to say, I am certainly not praising the man -- he hated Al Qaeda and kept them out of Iraq. It took the U.S. to draw them in.