Oh, I just can't take it any more.

Well, WTF came across the Google News today, the Taliban stoned a couple in the northern part of the country.

Isn't the reason we are there is to stop this sort of thing? Plus this is really far from Pakistan as the Taliban walk, so what the deal?

I here ya, big area not enough troops, the Afghan Army is just getting things together. Oh then there was the news about there operation that they got their hat handed to them by the Taliban. OK there learning and you got to start somewhere, right. Then there was the graphic about reported violent acts over a give number of years (yeah I can't remember where I saw it)but showed how things have moved from the east to the south, then around that "Ring Road" into the north. We didn't see that coming? Oh and the American Taxpayer build it to boot.

Then the good news that we are killing less civilians, but the overall civilian deaths have increased because of the Taliban. So what do the locals say, Nobody would have died, if you were not here. Thanks, keep those good thoughts coming our way.

Now I don't want to sound like I am complaining, but come on GEN Petraeus said we are making progress. I am not seeing it, of course I don't have the clear picture like he does, perhaps he is just going off the memo GEN McChrystal left.

Oh and while I am at it, it was really no surprise that GEN McChrystal staff gave voice to what they did, I have heard the same kinds of thing from various places, including my serving son. So what was the point of regime change there? Oh, and the Navy relieved the CO of the USS Peleliu for funny business with the crew, and there in the war zone supporting relief efforts in Pakistan.

Then there is Pakistan, boy, where to start, let's just look at there President. Well then that just about covers what wrong with Pakistan. Oh did you hear the leak that the ISI is helping and supporting the Taliban and most likely using our money to do it with, boy that was a good one. Just like the one I heard a few years ago that all those settlement being build on the West Bank are build with our dollars, that is really great. Cheer up though Israel is going to buy 20 F-35's, but we give them money for their defense budget. So are they really buying them?

OK, really none of this is new, just different faces and different times. This has happen before and will happen again and I think it's time we stop the cycle. The sign of being crazy is doing to same thing over and over again and expecting different results.