{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Kabul Press","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.kabulpress.org","title":"Part 2:  American military casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan exceed 500,000","author_name":"Matthew J. Nasuti (Former U.S. Air Force Captain)","width":"600","height":"400","url":"https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article16127.html","html":"\u003Ch4 class='title'\u003E\u003Ca href='https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article16127.html'\u003EPart 2:  American military casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan exceed 500,000\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cblockquote class='spip'\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn Afghanistan, the light at the end of the tunnel is an exploding Taliban IED.  The Pentagon has been given nine years to win its war and it has failed to do so.  Last week the American public was given a status report by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, who told Time Magazine that he is \u201cpretty confident\u201d that in six months the U.S. military will have made \u201csufficient progress\u201d in the war. \n\u003Cbr class='autobr' \/\u003E\n\tThis vague and hardly inspiring characterization (in which the Secretary commits to nothing) (\u2026)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n"}