Losing Battle

It does not seem that there is any possible solution to the situation in Afghanistan that could satisfy everybody. Obama has been fighting an uphill battle from the very beginning and it appears that not much more can be done. The below article comes from Slate, and discusses this issue. While reading this article, I was stricken by the immense amount of Americans that are put into the fight, pulled out, moved around, sent home, sent back. There is a lack of humanity to these numbers that transforms the men and women, sons and daughters, to a disposable number lost in some more important's man strategy.

The article:
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/2012/09/obama_afghanistan_why_there_is_no_reason_for_u_s_troops_to_remain_fighting_alongside_afghan_soldiers_.2.html