So, the clinical session can now begin... Bring in the patient.

1.)  Casualties in Afghanistan have been virtually non-existant.  Public elections have occurred and continue.  Representative government in the populated areas is on ongoing.  Our enemies are forced to occupy mountainous terrain that marginalizes their contact with the civil populace and makes any form of effective resupply operations difficult to the extreme.  Large numbers of them cannot mass for effective operations, and when it is attempted they die in huge bloody heaps that rot on top of mountains...

Early predictions by the american hating left said in the first week that we had followed the Russian example and were now bogged down in Afghnistan and we were all gonna die just like in the quagmire of Vietnam. Then three SF ODA effectively took Kabul. 

Then the American hating left said that we would never get to Kandahar since that is the Taliban stronghold and we were all gonna die.  Then two ODA took Kandahar.  

The Talis and AQ then began withdrawal operations to Waziristan.  They have not really effectively returned yet.

The American Hating left said that we were all gonna die during occupation duties, usually quoting from Rudyard Kipling.  Then the Civil Military affairs teams began landing.

So J Frank will say....   The few Taliban who have sneaked in are incapable of staging effective operations against US forces so they cut the throats of those who teach women and the US is evil because of it?  What is your pathology?

Opium is being grown now more than it was under the Tali's so the US is evil because of it?   What is your pathology?

2.) Numbers versus countries.  In Northwest Europe in WWII we had effectively three contries fighting, UK, Canada and the US.  On a percentage basis we now have similar amounts in country right now.  Remember, the US had approximately 43 divisions in place at that time compared to the Brits 8 and the Canadian half dozen.    Sorry.

But because we cannot get the French to commit a single soldier to come to Iraq, the US is an evil country.  What is your pathology?

3.)  Prior to the war, Iraq had lower POL production than it has today, mostly because what Iraq had in place was old, poorly maintained, and inefficiently used.  Since the invasion US engineers and Civil Affair units have spearheaded efforts to bring in civilian efforts to update these facilities.  (Bless Halliburton, they do good work.) 

What will you say?  Because Iraq had a dictatorship that caused them to have antiquated facilities the US is inherently evil?  What is your pathology?

Water production?  Very little in the way of sanitation services was available in Iraq prior to the war.  That which was avialable was clustered in Bagdahd in the areas the Baathists were known to use.  Same-same water purification.  Most villages used drive up wells.  We now have drilled wells in the rural areas and water facilities have begun and are in some cases finishing in new areas.

What will you say?  Because an oocasional bad guy wishes to stop improvements he will blow up a water plant and the US is inherently evil because we cannot stop everything?  What is your pathology?

Electricity?  Production is way up.  Surprisingly consumption is up even higher as people in outlying towns begin purchasing air conditioning, computers etc.  Stuff Saddam did not bother to import for his people.

Capitalism is thriving to the point that enterpreneurs with US assistance are buying generators to put in neighborhoods off the grid to power them so cell phones etc can be used.

What will you say?  We are evil because we are contributing to global warming by allowing them to modernize?   What is your pathology?

Plan for victory?  Hell we seized the country in record time.

What DID you say?  We are evil because of Looting?  Hell Looting ALWAYS occurs after an army moves in.  See Band Of Brothers for good detail.  What is your pathology?

You speak of plans on a shelf.  Please produce one for me now.  Full, hard copy.  You see, I had access to plans and they were good ones that WERE used.  We occuppied our sectors as the plans directed and began to do reconnaissance to determine what was needed. 

What will you say?  We were evil because we did not know that Samarra did not have effective sewer systems for the Taos Pueblo style mudhuts before we occuppied 3rd and main street?  What is your pathology?

State Department?  Oh, thats right, you ideolize the Foggy Bottoms, they are NEVER inherently evil, they do the lords work in all its might.  What is your pathology?

Were people taking out past grudges before the dome got blown up?  You bet.  Retail level only and it was usually personal in nature.  But because we were not able to stop individual murders we were evil?  What is your pathology?

We still control the place and strides forward are occuring, but you are blind to it, only able to see your own self hatered for ourselves.  Finally, What is your pathology?