More Deaths in Afghanistan than in Iraq
July 1, 2008 by Joshua Davis
More US and NATO troops were killed in Afghanistan than in Iraq for the second straight month:
Militants killed more U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan in June than in Iraq for the second straight month, a grim milestone capping a run of headline-grabbing insurgent attacks that analysts say underscore the Taliban’s growing strength.
The fundamentalist militia in June staged a sophisticated jailbreak that freed 886 prisoners, then briefly infiltrated a strategic valley outside Kandahar. Last week, a Pentagon report forecast the Taliban would maintain or increase its pace of attacks, which are already up 40 percent this year from 2007 where U.S. troops operate along the Pakistan border.
So it seems as soon as the situation in Iraq gets stabilized chaos breaks out in Afghanistan. And then just in time for a general election the press seems to be ignoring the situation in Afghanistan, and coverage in general of America’s wars.
The only option for victory in these countries is to let Arab nations that know the cultures and politics proceed with reconstruction. Meanwhile American withdrew it’s forces, but continued to release funds to rebuild what we destroyed.
McCain doesn’t have a good plan for Afghanistan, he wants highly trained swimmers searching for Osama bin Laden in the desert badlands of Pakistan and Afghanistan. McCain likes to tote a “secret plan” for victory, but Bush talked of a secret plan in 2004, and nothing seems to be improving in the two war fronts.
That is very interesting news. The sensationalism of selecting the next president does often overshadow and block out everything else in the media. It is amazing that there are more deaths in Afghanistan than in Iraq. I have heard that there are many less American deaths in Iraq because we are launching many more air strikes than ground invasions, into hostile territory. Can anyone here confirm whether this is true?
It’s all very well to blow up bridges in Afghanistan and then spend more money to have them rebuilt again, while our bridges are falling down here in America. But what we really need to do, from this point forwards, is completely alter our foreign policy and culture from one inclined towards militarism and war to one inclined towards peace.