I am chagrined to read Michael Yon's posts these days. Yon, who provided riveting and informative coverage of the Iran and Iraq wars during the Bush administration, has effectively been shut out by the Obama administration's Soviet-style censorship of news coming out of Afghanistan.

Yon has been relegated to taking pictures of soldiers collecting biometric information on Afghanis, and still had his embed status pulled in violation of a written agreement. He's been muzzled, pure and simple.

His conclusions are being conveyed in emails to those registered on his site, no doubt to avoid further hassles with Gen. McChyrstal's Ministry of Truth.

We are losing the war in Afghanistan, and you haven't and won't hear a word about it from the American news media who as far as I can tell, aren't even bothering to cover a war in which troop casualties exceed the worst years in Iraq. Iraq casualties were reported in great detail by virtually every major newspaper in the country. No one is bothering to photograph flag-draped caskets arriving home for burial, in spite of the fact that its now permitted.

Ultimately, its not going to be possible to hide Obama's Vietnam. When Karzai flees into exile, it will become clear what happened, and Progressives will be free to write their own version of what happened (its Bush's fault...).

The incompetence and fascist instincts of this administration seems to know no bounds.