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‘Real News’ War Room: Grim Milestone for U.S. Troops in Afghanistan

While the majority of media has been preoccupied elsewhere this week, the number of American servicemen killed in Afghanistan has surpassed 2,000. Even more troubling than this is the reports that more than half of the deaths in Afghanistan have come in the last 27th months, meaning that the conflict has actually been escalating. In what was once called “the war of necessity” by President Obama, there seems to be a lot of attention being paid to the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden, the original reason the U.S. invaded in the first place, but very little attention is being given to an increasingly difficult situation on the ground in Afghanistan. Afghan militants fired rockets at a plane used by the top U.S. military officer on Tuesday, and the more than 80,000 American troops still fighting in Afghanistan are dying at a rate of one a day.

If we include the conflicts in Syria and the escalation of the Iran-Israel tensions, is all of the attention still given to the bin Laden capture a way to divert from what has been something of a negligent “Lead from Behind” foreign policy? Watch a clip from “Real News” Wednesday that looks to answer this question, while joined by guest Richard Miniter, author of “Leading From Behind.”

 

Comments (17)

  • Dismayed Veteran
    Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:05pm

    This from memory so it may not be absolutely accurate. Kipling wrote this about the British Afganistan failure. I suspect more than one Russian soldier recited the verse. I know my son recited it to me before he deployed.

    When you lie bleeding on Afghanistans plains
    And the women come to cut what remains
    Why you roll on rifle
    And blow out your brains
    And go to God like a Soldier.

    I was in Vietnam during the wind down. I know I didn’t want my men to be killed by the last bullet in a war we lost. I know I didn’t.

    Announcing our withdrawl date emboldens the enemy and erodes our troops morale.

    There will always be a rearguard. I pray daily my son is not in it.

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  • georgeisn6
    Posted on August 23, 2012 at 12:17pm

    As far as the lame Media and “O”whatabummer are conserned since this is a democrat administration, those boy,s who are dieing over there are not being killed by the enemy, but are dieing of natural causes. So there is no need to report the number killed. The MEDIA lost the ability to count the day Bush left office“ ”O“whatabummer”

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  • Johann
    Posted on August 23, 2012 at 8:06am

    It is time to stop the war. Romney had better get on board the end the war movement; there is no reason or sense in continuing this travesty in Afghanistan. Young Americans are being sacrificed on the altar of political expendiency and their military leaders are no more than political robots following the orders of the idiots in the Obama regime. Afghanistan is not worth one American life; withdraw now. Let these barbaric people build their own democracy with their own blood otherwise it is a waste of time , money and most important American lives.

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  • voting-for-romney
    Posted on August 23, 2012 at 6:04am

    There is a large group of Americans that want to reduce the foreign role of troops, and do so without jeopardizing current lives? What about major Iraqi banks getting caught helping Iran launder money recently? Why are Americans in the dark? International trade is forcing nations to become independent in the face of senseless military alliances?

    I hope not, but are they even asking the questions?

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  • bruce_baker
    Posted on August 23, 2012 at 3:05am

    Even one death is sad, even if in a good cause. In the case of Afghanistan, what is it that NATO (really, the U.N.) says we’re trying to accomplish there by supporting a corrupt tyrant? No Congressional declaration of war. Acting under NATO authority. An Afghan populace that would prefer a Muslim theocracy. I don’t see a happy ending for U.S. interests anywhere, in any of that.

    Two thousand deaths is a tragedy, but what about the millions we kill in America through abortion? Americans used to be able to believe that their government officials at least knew what was right and wanted to do it. What changed? The people that elect those officials!

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  • stuharnden
    Posted on August 22, 2012 at 10:49pm

    Now

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  • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
    Posted on August 22, 2012 at 10:27pm

    One hot desert morning at dawn’s early light
    While trudging through the sand
    I found a piece of paper
    Clutched in a young man’s hand
    And upon that paper the words he wrote
    Were not filled with despair
    Just thoughts from the heart of a brave young lad
    He called it, “A Soldier’s Prayer”
    I took the paper from his hand and read it aloud…
    Will there be a place in Heaven
    For a person such as me
    Who, through youth and the love for life
    Isn‘t all you’d have me be?
    I’ve been a man but a short time now
    And I’ll ask you this, if I might
    Isn‘t fighting for freedom’s cause
    A fight that’s always right?
    The men I’ve killed, some things I’ve done
    Are not things I’ve wanted to do
    But a job I believe had to be done
    By we who believe in you
    I had those thoughts upon my mind
    When I heard that deadly sound
    Then, all around me, one by one
    My friends fell to the ground
    Somehow I knew before it hit
    Fear ran up my spine
    I felt the blast tearing my side
    I knew this one was mine
    There’ll be much grief for loved ones at home
    when they learn that I am dead
    Please ease their pain and let them know
    These things that I have said
    Time’s run out, I can feel death’s sting
    Oh, God, please hear my plea
    Let there be a place in Heaven
    For a person such as me
    Lord, this is the chaplain, I’m here with this lad
    Our country’s given the finest it had
    We who are older and have studied your word
    Know this boy’s prayer is more than just heard

    Con’t…

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  • Chromo200
    Posted on August 22, 2012 at 9:38pm

    Leave Aphganistan to KArsi … He knows what to do. If they mess with us just send drones with Iranian markings since we “gave” them one and now they may have a few.

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  • Wolfgang the Gray
    Posted on August 22, 2012 at 8:39pm

    Once again, this is why you don’t let politicians run the war. The president and congress are supposed to vote for war, pick the enemy, and then loose the military to do their job. The job of the military is to destroy the enemies ability to wage war. It isn’t policing, it isn’t nation building. It is pure destruction and should not be let off the leash lightly.

    The afghan people don’t appear to want us there, their own troops turn on our troops, their leader would rather make deals with that Taliban than the US. Oh, and our IDIOT PRESIDENT told them enemy when we would be leaving. I don’t know who is a bigger threat to our fighting men and women, the Taliban fighter behind the rifle or the president who sent our troops there for no good reason. We kicked out the Taliban and rescued the people from their tyranny. Then we tried to train them to hold their own. They have turned on us and think the Taliban is better. Time to pull out and let them have the choice they made. They either need to stand on their own or they can go back to the way it was.

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    • soybomb315_II
      Posted on August 22, 2012 at 8:49pm

      Its a tough sell wolfgang. 4 years ago, republicans nominated a candidate on the strength of his ‘nation building’ and ‘policing’ background…. There is a huge gap between what you said and the average republican – i hope the tea party has closed that gap a lot

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  • topperj
    Posted on August 22, 2012 at 8:21pm

    And the media yawns. When Bush was president we had the daily body count from the Associated Press. Somehow they’ve run out of interest in reporting the deaths, especially how most have occured during Obama’s tenure. This was the “right” war, said candidate Obama. Right?

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  • soybomb315_II
    Posted on August 22, 2012 at 8:11pm

    time to leave

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  • lukerw
    Posted on August 22, 2012 at 8:00pm

    Afghanistan… has always been the Land of… Back Stabbers, Bush Wackers, & Betrayal…

    The British & Russians must be laughing!

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