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"At this point, it seems like the war on drugs in America," added Spec. David Fulcher, 22, a medic from Lynchburg, Va., who sat alongside Steffey. "It's like this never-ending battle, like, we find one IED, if we do find it before it hits us, so what? You know it's just like if the cops make a big bust, next week the next higher-up puts more back out there."

A piece from the Washington Post on the grunts'-eye view of the war in Iraq.

That's an analogy that occured to me some time back and has been bothering me for a long time.