The war we've ignored

We're losing ground rapidly in the one war that might have been justified, Afghanistan.

KABUL, Afghanistan - A suicide car bomber struck a convoy of U.S. military vehicles Friday in downtown Kabul, killing at least 16 people, including two American soldiers, and wounding 29 others. It was the Afghan capital's deadliest suicide attack since the Taliban's 2001 ouster. The blast near the U.S. Embassy came as NATO chiefs appealed for member nations to send reinforcements to combat resurgent Taliban militants fanning the deadliest violence in five years. A top British general said the fighting in volatile southern Afghanistan was now more ferocious than in Iraq.

It's hard to imagine how anyone could have screwed things up any more badly than these guys. It's so bad, it's almost as though they're trying, but that would be giving them credit for knowing how to screw up -- sort of like getting a zero on a true-false test with 100 questions, you have to know the right answers to pick the wrong ones so consistently.