Wed Jun 22, 2011 at 07:38:52 PM EDT
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While we're waiting for the President to speak to the nation at 8pm tonight, I'll give you Senator Bob Menendez's Op-Ed on Afghanistan today:
In finding Bin laden and bringing him to justice, we have struck a serious blow to Al Qaida's leadership that has allowed us to reevaluate the wisdom of pursuing a broad and open-ended strategy, where the mounting costs are far too high - in lives lost, blood spilled, traumatic injury to our brave men and women in uniform, and in real dollars spent. Nearly 1,500 brave men and women have lost their lives in Afghanistan, nearly 12,000 have been wounded in action. The price tag, at a time when we are scrutinizing every dollar in Washington and making cuts to critical domestic programs, is a staggering $10 billion a month.
The main news that some 30,000 "surge" troops will be withdrawn by the end of next year has already been given to the NYT and WaPo. (Update: End of next year is should be end of next summer. On the other hand, this is equivalent to the 'second' surge of troops.) |
| Hopeful :: President Obama's Address on Afghanistan |
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