The troops still are there

March 19 was the sixth anniversary of the start of the Iraq war, but no one is paying much attention. Instead, our attention is fixated on bank bailouts and AIG bonuses. There are still 142,000 U. S. soldiers in Iraq, but there is amazingly little fuss about them. U. S. casualties are down, and most troops will be withdrawn by the summer of 2010, with a reserve of 35,000 to 40,000 remaining through 2011. And yet, although the violence has plummeted, bombs still go off in Baghdad, Iraqi civilians still die, and some American soldiers do, too. As…

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