Don't bother the War Post with facts

To the Washington Post:

Your editorial of January 17, "Fight in Afghanistan," unfairly denigrates the contribution of our NATO allies in Afghanistan, alleging that they are "too averse to casualties" to be as effective as U.S. troops and backing up that derogatory insinuation with a cruelly misleading comparison of the number of fatalities suffered since the invasion of Afghanistan began. However, since the middle of 2006 when NATO significantly increased its force size and shouldered a larger share of allied operations, it has been our allies, primarily from NATO, who have paid the higher blood cost, with 193 allied fatalities compared to 165 U.S. troops. Happily, I haven't heard of any of our NATO allies alleging a similar canard about the U.S.

Note: This is in response to a Washington Post editorial of January 17, 2008.

Note: this was originally posted on ketches, yaks & hawks 18 January 2008