This morning, I saw this sobering article on the New York Times website, about the ever rising death count in the war in Afghanistan (a lot of you probably did too because it was on the front page of the print version).
After this post last week, I ended with a dooms-day-esque downward spiral of possibilities in which Bush is able to resurrect his legacy and simultaneously change public opinion regarding McCain's thousand year war.

But, the liberal press is swooping in to save us from that fate.

The CNN article which inspired the original post only states that the tours of duty of men deployed to Iraq will be shortened. Bush makes no mention of those in Afghanistan whatsoever.
The NYTimes article, however, brings to the forefront the rising death toll in a war that is described as "forgotten" three separate times in the article (and a fourth in the accompanying video).
Even as Bush tries to make good press that things are "making progress" in Iraq, things are deteriorating in Afghanistan. And it looks like the NYTimes has written something of a call to arms, for the media to step up their coverage (" '...you never hear about Afghanistan.' "; "the public’s neglect of the war in Afghanistan"). Hopefully they will be able to meet this challenge.

Maybe if they do so, there will be fewer families ripped apart like those in the article. We can only hope.