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I found the Volokh post I mentioned earlier via Instapundit. If you go scroll down to the previous day’s posts, you find this nugget of wisdom:

Looking at those numbers, it appears that the Iraq, Afghanistan wars have resulted in an increase of 885 dead over what could have been expected through normal garrison operations in Bush II’s first term. That is not too bad when you consider that Bush has liberated two countries and fought a prolonged insurgency in both and that America lost over 1,000 dead in taking Vichy French North Africa in 1942 (that was before we even so much as fired a shot at the Germans).

So did we liberate Afghanistan, or did we set up a brutal theocracy? Or is everything good that happens in Afghanistan to Bush’s credit, and everything bad the fault of Islam?

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