It's Time to Bring the Troops Home

President Obama, who labeled himself as the anti-war candidate, has failed on his promises to end the wars in the Middle East and instead has escalated the war in Afghanistan while the Taliban to regroups in the mountains of the Af-Pak border.

It now appears the troops are fed up with fighting and are losing heart in the mission. From the UK Times:

American soldiers serving in Afghanistan are depressed and deeply disillusioned, according to the chaplains of two US battalions that have spent nine months on the front line in the war against the Taleban.

Many feel that they are risking their lives — and that colleagues have died — for a futile mission and an Afghan population that does nothing to help them, the chaplains told The Times in their makeshift chapel on this fortress-like base in a dusty, brown valley southwest of Kabul.