Truly depressing stuff on Frontline tonight.

Can't say enough about the truly heroic job our troops are doing in the 'forgotten' war. To me the saddest part is that this is really just heating up. We're gonna face the music there real soon and the options are bad, worse, godawful, horrific, and downright unspeakable. I don't even want to think about the whole 'destablizing Pakistan' permutations!!!

My (Our) only hope is that a new Obama administration takes a comprehensive and sensible review of our entire middle and near east strategy and global force structure. Hopefully they'll be capable of making some difficult decisions that might be able to pull a rabbit out of the hat and salvage some semblance of a decent resolution.

I'm not holding my breath though...