US Marine marksman, Sangin district, Helmand Province, Afghanistan, June 2011

Sangin is falling or has fallen.

What is Sangin?  A 200-square-mile petri dish inside the 250,000-plus-square-mile Afghanistan laboratory of for failed nation-building/COIN experimentation in blood overseen by George W. Bush, Barack Obama, David Petraeus, Stanley McChrystal and other mad political/military scientists while our own nation's borders remained, and remain, undefended.

A few notes from along the way.

December 3, 2010: "Sangin: Epicenter of US Government Dementia" 

May 12, 2011: "Congress and the Afghanistan Scandal"

September 7, 2011: "US-Muslim Outreach ... in Sangin"

November 21, 2011: "COIN Colonel: Changing Religious Mindset May Not Be Realistic Goal in A-Stan" 

March 9, 2012: "Sacrificing Marines for the `Greater Good'"?