The US has withdrawn troops from Iraq’s major cities. This major milestone just happened to take place in the middle of a slate of celebrity deaths. Obama has announced that they are on track to completely withdraw by 2011. Violence has increased as militias and groups within and without struggle for control of that nation.
Meanwhile Obama has shifted troops into the widening and increasing bloody conflict in Afghanistan. July was the deadliest month yet for NATO forces. Pakistan’s Swat Valley has been ravaged as Pakistani forces have battled deeply entrenched Taliban forces on the border of the two countries. Osama bin Laden is thought to be hiding out somewhere in the border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
It’s easy to get wrapped up into our own problems (as admittedly serious and important as they may be). But we have a responsibility to keep abreast of the situations in these countries and do what is necessary to protect the US and do right by those countries, as hard or inconvenient as that may be.
– Burr
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