We’d like to use our time today to bring you waht we think is a very interesting story. Perhaps we are wrong in our assessment as it is a story that has gone virtually ignored by the national media. So at the risk of wasting your time…here goes.
The United States of America is at war in Afghanistan.
2,088 members of the United States military have been killed in Afghanistan; the most recent on August 10, 2012 when six Marines were murdered by our Afghan partners. The youngest Marine was 21 years of age. He was 10 when the war started.
15,322 members of the United States military have been wounded.
The war in Afghanistan continues to cost American taxpayers $2 billion dollars per week.
The war was started without an exit strategy. The president has said that we will pull out of Afghanistan in 2014...maybe. The Republicans believe we should stay there as long as it takes to secure a victory. No one can provide a definition of “victory.”
We don’t fault the national media for ignoring this story. Americans aren’t really all that interested. The two guys running for president don’t even mention it. And there is only so much space and time to cover Biden’s malapropos and Romney’s stilted dialogue.
America is at war. Our young men and women are dying.
Maybe we are wrong. Maybe it’s not that important.
We just thought you should know.
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