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A week ago, Taliban militants took over a town in southern Afghanistan. Around 200 fighters rushed the Musa Qala and neutralized local police authorities. The group held hostages during the first days of the town’s capture.

After a NATO airstrike on Sunday, in which the local leader was killed, there is confidence that the Afghan government will regain control of the town. Beside help from the International Security Assistance Force, national militia will be aided by the resistance of the people.

The most regrettable certainty to develop in the seven years since America’s election of George Bush is that handfuls to hundreds die with every sun that rises in Iraq. Every morning, newspapers in the United States serve as death toll bulletins for that day’s rash of violence. The AP reports mirror the emotional connections that a majority of American citizens have to the sectarian conflict. There is, I sense, a considerable detachment on our parts.

But it isn’t complacency or comfort that cut the cord to our sentiment. It’s habituation.

In lieu of covering '08 Presidential hopefuls' responses to the Bush administration's plan to increase the number of troops in Iraq, I think I'd like to write a little bit about the American dream.

Let me first state that I am unequivocally, 100 percent behind Wesley Snipes in this time of personal turmoil. Let me say secondly that I cannot wait to see his next movie Gallow Walker, which is still in the production process.