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You know, if they're not going to bring our soldiers home from Iraq, then perhaps they should send them to where they should have been all along: Afghanistan.

And while the Bush Administration has looked the other way, the Taliban has re-emerged:

"More American and coalition troops died in Afghanistan last month than during any other month since the American-led invasion began in 2001, the latest evidence of a strengthening Taliban insurgency that has menaced NATO forces and reclaimed control over some southern and eastern parts of the country.

The violence in Afghanistan has surged at the same time as the number of attacks and American deaths in Iraq have fallen. Among the American-led forces in the two countries, 46 service members were killed in Afghanistan, compared with 31 in Iraq, the second straight month in which combat deaths in Afghanistan exceeded those in Iraq.

A recent Pentagon report about Afghanistan painted a stark picture of security conditions inside the country, a militant force that had “coalesced into a resilient insurgency” and a central government in Kabul that still could not extend its reach into the hinterlands. An American commander, Maj. Gen. Jeffrey J. Schloesser, has said that militant attacks on coalition troops increased by 40 percent from January to May compared with the same period last year."

I know that the "War on Terror" is, by the nature of its enemy alone, going to be a complicated and protracted one; but we're making it worse. The choice to focus on Iraq and not Afghanistan, the seat of Al Qaeda, is going to come back and bite us HARD on the ass one of these days.