Remember how the Democrats and their mouthpieces in the lib media always used to give a lot of attention to death toll milestones in Iraq and Afghanistan when President Bush was in office?
Remember the anti-war marches?
Will the biggest story today be about the U.S. death toll in Afghanistan reaching 1000? Will the media obsess over it or will it be ignored for the most part?
From Reuters:
The number of American soldiers killed in Afghanistan has reached 1,000, an independent website said on Tuesday, a grim reminder that eight years of fighting has failed to defeat Taliban insurgents.
Icasualties.org said 54 U.S. troops were killed this year in Afghanistan, raising the casualties to 1,000, compared to eight in Iraq, where the total has reached 4,378. The rise to 1,000 dead coincides with one of the biggest offensives against the Taliban, a NATO-led assault in the Marjah district of Helmand, Afghanistan's most violent province.
The operation is an early test of U.S. President Barack Obama's troop surge strategy aimed as wresting control of Taliban bastions and handing them over to Afghan authorities before the start of a gradual U.S. troop withdrawal in 2011.
Afghanistan is high on Obama's foreign policy agenda and more American casualties or a military campaign that fails to bring stability to the country could harm his presidency.
Violence is at its highest level since the 2001 ouster of the Taliban. Last year was the deadliest of the war for civilians and foreign troops.
The Democrats and other anti-Bush forces never hesitated to exploit the deaths of our troops to achieve their political ends.
They would hype the benchmarks, hoping to use the toll for their advantage, to score political points.
So here we are at 1000 deaths in Afghanistan, 1000 precious individuals dead.
Now that Obama is in office, I doubt the media will dwell on the grim statistic.
Double standard at play. Again.
I'm praying for the thousands and thousands of family members who've lost loved ones in the war in Afghanistan, and remembering their enormous sacrifice.
2 comments:
"...exploit the deaths of our troops to achieve their political ends."
And what are you doing with this post?
All deaths by war are tragic, particularly when avoidable. If only we could have avoided the Iraq fiasco, we may have been able to clean up Afghanistan quicker.
I'm not exploiting their deaths with my post.
Pointing out the REALITY, exhibited by elected officials and the media, isn't exploitation.
Good grief.
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