KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- An American soldier was killed in an attack on a patrol in eastern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said Wednesday, the third U.S. service member to die in the country this week.

[via The New York Times]

Because of our administration's mainia for war in Iraq, we are losing control of Afghanistan, a place where military intervention was actually justified. The stagnant conditions have led local warlords to begin cooperating with the ousted Taliban; this is a bad thing.