So if a conservative estimate is 40,000 per year for the past  years, that means the allied intervention has SAVED 120,000 people who otherwise would have died.

You're right, Ace; that's a huge offset.

Babies come out the vagina, right?

We're taking a huge hit in blog credibility due to your obsession with all things vaginal, Ace. Maybe a vagina moratorium would be good at this time.

P.S. Phew! It's a good thing that they never dug up your post about breast feeding.

When Hilary! walks in the Oval Office in 2009 you can bet we'll reverse this unwelcome news when women in Afghanistan finally have a choice when it comes to their reproductive health.

Damn Bush and all you rabid vagina-loving neocon Rethuglicans!

You mean it can be a good thing to overthrow an evil regime?

What is the world coming to?

Carlotta Gall, NYT: "Infant mortality has dropped by 18 percent in Afghanistan, one of the first real signs of recovery for the country five years after the fall of the Taliban regime, health officials said Thursday."

sherlock, AoSHQ: "the NYT actually carries a story that infant mortality has dropped by 18 percent in Afghanistan, one of the first tentaive signs of a re-discovery of 'reporting' since this paper became an apologist for oppressive regimes worldwide."

On the other hand, notice how "...one of the first real signs of recovery for the country in five years..." is artfully blended into the lead sentence so as to imply that it is a quote from the "health officials", but in a way that also allows deniablity that it was an attempt to insert the headline-writer's opinion as a quote.  Very nuanced.

I fucking hate not just the MSM but the sort of liberals who are responsible.

I second that emotion.

I fucking hate not just the MSM but the sort of liberals who are responsible.

Yes!

Yea, that women going to school shit just don't count.

Quite so, Purple.  I guess that OEF tour of mine was still a waste, help to the Parwan Ministry of Health aside...

Then how come most of the people on the left aren't working for Major John?

Chickenhawks!

40,000 Afghani women denied their right to choose.
Gloria Steinhem just cried a little.

You made me spew cranberry juice on my screen.

Um, most people on the left supported the war in Afghanistan.  The main complaint was that we didn't devote the resources towards finishing the job.

Why do most of your presidential candidates deny that they'd use force if Al Qaeda attacked us again? In the recent presidential debate, Hillary was the only one still willing to use force.

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There are now 20 combat brigades in the country, a number that is scheduled to drop to 15 by next summer. Mr. Gates has previously expressed hope that if security conditions in the country continue to improve, force levels in Iraq could drop to 10 brigades by the end of 2008.

Mr. Gates gave no timetable for reaching that force level or for how long the forces would be required to stay. He added that there had been no detailed planning by the Pentagon about what level of forces would be required on a more or less permanent basis.

A combat brigade has 3,500 to 4,500 soldiers, leaving a minimum of 17,500 combat troops in Iraq under the plan Mr. Gates described. The total American force required would probably end up being at least twice that, because of the need for support troops and other related personnel.

Afghan winter, graveyard of empires, use native forces, err, use US troops.  The left supported it the way they support any military action:  how ever we're currently doing it is  always misguided..