Source: iCasualties, CRS (.pdf)
In 2008 Obama campaigned on Afghanistan as "the good war"—so voters wouldn't think him too dovish. And as you can see we haven't been doubling down—more like quintupling down.
But for what? How does this end?
A wiser man once said: "It's time to admit that no amount of American lives can resolve the political disagreement that lies at the heart of someone else's civil war."
That was Barack Obama...in 2006.
(cross-posted at Library Grape)
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