US hope of victory in Afghanistan dims

World Report | Chen Weihua in New York

With the death toll of US soldiers in Afghanistan surpassing 2,000 this month, citizens of the United States have shown less patience and confidence in the nearly 11-year-old war.

On Wednesday, the New York Times ran a four-page list of the US soldiers killed in Afghanistan since October 2001, a month after the September 11 attack in New York.