Good thing that it is reported that things are getting better in Afghanistan -- in our country's longest war.
Just the data ... I'll let the reader decide ...
[Data extrapolated in 2010 taking the ratio of 2010 data as of 15 June to 2009 data].
1.5 times as many soldiers have been killed since the Nobel Peace Prize President took office than in the first 8 years of the war ...
Fatalities this year are up a factor of 2 over last year ...
We have over 100,000 troops [not counting civillian contractors] and our Secretary of Defense is making the rounds of European capitals, with his hat in his hand, desparately trying to find 300 military trainers for the Afghanistan army ...
