U.S. Army Capt. Brad Vance, upper left, addresses soldiers after they received their 172 Infantry Brigade combat patches on Observation Post 1 above Forward Operating Base Tillman, Afghanistan, Sept. 11, 2011. Vance is commander of Company C, 3rd Battalion, 66th Armor Regiment, 172nd Infantry Brigade. U.S. Army photo by Ken ScarThe Wars America Doesn't Talk About -- Foreign Policy
A disturbing triumphalism over the Libya intervention has emerged amid the conspiracy of silence over the bloody mess in Afghanistan.
Last month was the deadliest for U.S. troops in Afghanistan in the ten years of the war there, with 67 killed, nearly half of them Navy SEALs in the downing of a Chinook helicopter -- the deadliest single incident in this, the longest war in American history. More promisingly, it was also the first month since the American invasion of Iraq in 2003 that not a single U.S. soldier was killed there.
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My Comment: If it was a conscript military .... and not a volunteer one .... the wars that America is fighting in will be discussed non-stop back home.