The Daily Beast – “What Are They Dying For?”
Source: The Daily Beast, 8/9/2011
Andrew Sullivan highlights comments from ASP Fellow Joshua Foust.
By Andrew Sullivann
“Joshua Foust uses the recent helicopter crash in Afghanistan to remind of the war’s grim reality:
[A]s shocking and as sad as the loss of 30 American troops is, the fundamental strategic picture of the war hasn’t changed. Nearly 50 troops have died in Afghanistan so far in August; while that’s high, 65 ISAF troops died in June. The number of soldiers killed says very little about their effectiveness: In war, fighting can be hard with many dead but ultimately serving some purpose. The real scandal in Afghanistan isn’t that Americans are getting killed. The real scandal is that we don’t know why we’re there…”
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