A good read from Tapper on his recent week in Afghanistan. An excerpt:

The executive officer of the 2/27, Major Dom Edwards, had just been telling us how dealing with the wounded children is one of the toughest parts of being up there. He has yet to go a week without seeing a severely wounded child. He believes the medical care the US provides locals helps with the larger fight to connect villagers to the Afghan government — Counter-insurgency — but it’s heartbreaking.
We traveled with a Medevac crew to pick up this boy at Jalalabad Friday night.
Last I saw him was Saturday morning. He lost his left eye and several fingers from both hands, but it looked like he would make it.

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