This week has been a disaster for our troops in Afghanistan, with 16 service members killed in a helicopter crash while searching to extract a small team (of less than ten) U.S. Special Forces fighters, who have yet to be located and extracted tonight.
This, on the situation today in Afghanistan, from the
Washington Post:
The incident came as U.S. and Afghan forces face growing violence from insurgent groups that appear to be numerous, well-equipped and intent on undermining Afghanistan's modicum of stability after two decades of civil strife, foreign military occupation and religious repression.
At the same time, an increase in street crime, gang violence, kidnappings of foreign aid workers, murders of Afghans who support the U.S.-backed government and continued high levels of drug crop cultivation and trafficking have added to a sense of insecurity in the country. Afghan officials have been struggling to rebuild their country since the Taliban militia was ousted by a U.S.-led military campaign at the end of 2001.
WHAT modicum of stability? What norm is the Washington Post talking about here?
Despite all the revisionist snarl from the Republican spinmeisters that the (Liberal, dontcha remember!) MSM fails to cover all the "good news" gushing out of Afghanistan and Iraq these days, I seriously doubt that the most partisan of the conservative publications would feel secure in describing Afghanistan in the last half century as having anything NEAR a "modicum of stability" to be threatened or destroyed.