Every civilian's death diminishes us, collectively.

Iraq has gone from being on the brink to being on the mend, and it clearly has some big advantages.

Every civilian's death diminishes us, collectively.

We obviously don't want to cause problems for the Afghan government, President Hamid Karzai and the Afghan people. In fact, we want them to support our efforts on their behalf and not see us as unwelcome occupiers.

After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair.

If you look at casualties, you find countries that had much higher loss rates per capita than the US. Denmark comes to mind, the United Kingdom, they have suffered heavy losses at various points, the Germans as well.

Over the last few years they have done a superb job in their fight against al-Qaida. As you may recall, our embassy in Jedda (in Saudi Arabia) was overrun some four years ago and a number of foreign workers went home because of violence against them.