Twenty-four coalition troops dead in the first four days of October. Attacks on U.S. forces have dramatically escalated in recent weeks.
Suicide attacks increasing in the Republic of Kabul, the part of Afghanistan effectively governed by Hamid Karzai.
The Secretary of State tours middle east nations and reaps the whirlwind. That would be Condoleeza Rice, who for other reasons may not be long for this government.
And lest we forget, the combined brains of our government’s intelligence agencies concluded that the Iraq war has already made the threat from terrorism much worse. We might be able to verify that independently if the State Department still released an annual terrorism report but they don’t do that anymore. I wonder why that is.