Monday, August 22, 2005

Iraq in miniature?

Yesterday four more American soldiers were killed in Afghanistan. That makes 65 this year and 181 since 2001. Combine these deaths with the slow pace of reconstruction, the limited government beyond Kabul, the need for the people to grow opium because of the poor economy and you've got another incipient quagmire.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Al you don't have the slightest clue why the US is in Afghanistan and Iraq. It is so you can continue to make insipid comments about your stocks, modern dance, and other blather without being distracted by a jet flying into a building full of people.

Al DeVito said...

Gee, and I thought it was so that people would feel free enough so that they would not mind giving their names, rather than hide behind anonymity.

If I find a writer truly insipid, I don't spend any time reading his work. Why are you wasting your time reading mine?