NY Times Tuesday April 27

First off, is the government trying to confuse us by putting that graph on the front? I sort of thought that the point of the news was to clarify and offer insight on problems that we might not understand ourselves, but this certainly does not do a lot for me. At the same time, I think it illustrates how complicated the Afghanistan war is and puts the people who blindly criticize the US for not pulling out in their place. It shows all the different factors that have to be considered during a war. I think the point of this article was to confuse us and perhaps say that we can't get out of Afghanistan now because there is so much at stake here.