Afghanistan - 1,000 Americans dead

On Tuesday, the toll of American dead in Afghanistan passed 1,000, after a suicide bomb in Kabul killed at least five United States service members. Having taken nearly seven years to reach the first 500 dead, the war killed the second 500 in fewer than two.

It didn't have to be this way. We shouldn't still be there, eight years and eight months later. George Bush ignored it and Barack Obama caved and overreacted.