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The NY Times this weekend went in depth on the latest round of the wikileaks document dump on the war in Iraq. Despite the erratic behavior of its founder, the value of the light the document release casts on America's entanglements in the Middle East can't be denied. Amongst the accounts of gross negligence and incompetence, there is one chilling line:

There are more contractors over all than actual members of the military serving in the worsening war in Afghanistan.

Be it ten years from now, sooner, or later, we can only anticipate more sickening accounts as a result.