Just over 24 hours ago, Walt wrote "Let's quit while we're behind", advocating (like Ron Paul) the immediate withdrawal of NATO forces from the Afghan sandpit.
That's the same advice given by Senator George Aiken to LBJ while the Vietnam war was raging. But no American president has ever listened to pleas to stop waging war.
Now, NATO says separate bomb attacks in Afghanistan's south and east have killed two of its service members, while a third died of non-battle injuries in the south. All of this happened yesterday, around the same time as Walt's post.
No details -- such as the nationalities of the soldiers -- have been made available by the US-led military. So far this month -- this month alone -- 40 coalition members have died in Afghanistan, bringing the toll for the first four months of 2012 to 131. How many more must die before we do the sensible thing and get out?
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