"It is relatively rare for four or more soldiers to be killed by a single IED, or improvised explosive device. But insurgents have been using increasingly sophisticated tactics in the manufacture and planting of the roadside bombs, which account for about 70 percent of combat casualties."
-Laura King, Los Angeles Times
Maybe you're thinking that's a 2004 dispatch from Dubya's Nation-Building in Iraq...but no, it's from today's L.A. Times, reporting on Obama's Nation-Building...in Afghanistan...
30 U.S. dead in Afghanistan this month alone...and the month isn't even over yet...
