Sorry I've been absent for a while - I've been fighting this health care monstrosity over at QandO and doing a lot of traveling trying to make a living. But this week something slapped me in the face and made me stop and think for a moment. Sometime last month, total American deaths in Afghanistan passed 1,000. Or so I read yesterday on some obscure blog. Realizing that, I wondered when the media blitz announcing this impending solemn event had taken place, given their propensity to mark such goulish benchmarks previously? Where are the countdown boxes showing the number of dead? What the hell happend to the nightly end of broadcast recounting of those who gave all in the service of their country? Instead we get this: To some, the relatively quiet approach of the benchmark in Afghanistan is a sign that the country has grown more sober-minded in the way it perceives the war. Oh. Really? Is that why?
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Mar 02 2010, 06:50 AM
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