Sad milestone: 1,000 US dead in Afghanistan

I just saw an article in the NY Times that says we have now reached 1,000 dead among US service men and women serving in the war in Afghanistan. I have yet to hear anyone explain how we would know if we have won (or lost) this war. How many more Americans and Afghanis will die before we take a deep breath and make the tough decision to end the war...not next year or the year after, but now.

Here's a link to the NY Times Story:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/19/us/19dead.html?hp

Here's a link to images of the US service men and women who have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Sadly, we have no images of the hundreds of thousands of of Afghanis and Iraqis who have died.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/us/faces-of-the-dead.html?ref=us#/rivers_thomas_e_jr