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I remember back a few years ago when Iraq was going full bore I said more people died in the US than were dying in Iraq but you wouldn't know it from the media coverage. Now, you want to focus on the people dying here because Obama is president. He hates guns. So like parrots you spout his talking points. The war isn't even an issue anymore, because your focus is what the White House wants your focus to be.
My suggestion is for you to learn to think for yourselves and maybe you'd learn to get a life by accident.
The war isn't an issue because we are out of Iraq, and we are going to be out of Afghanistan soon enough... At this point, the Taliban is just running out the clock, and even Karzai knows where this is all going.
Personally, I disagree with how Obama handled Afghanistan, and I've said so. I think any obligation we had to prop up the Karzai brothers ended when he stole the 2009 election. We should have started packing our stuff there.
I think Obama painted himself into a political corner. He called Afghanistan a "War of Necessity" when it really wasn't.
But for the record....
We had 11,101 gun murders and 16,000 gun suicides in the US in 2012.
We had 402 Military casualties in Afghanistan in 2012 (Down from a high of 711 in 2010.)
Yes, gun deaths in this country really are a bigger deal.