Sixteen US Soldiers killed in Afghanisan in 24 Hours

The Times: Reports that sixteen soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan over the past 24 hours, the USA is taking heavy causalities due to the Taliban and the hard battle environment of Afghanistan. Over all as reported by icasualties.org the USA has lost 267 of its Armed Forces Personnel this year, in total since 2001 the USA has lost 897 of its Forces in Afghanistan. This year alone has seen the heaviest losses, in 2008 the USA lost 155 of its Armed Forces Personnel, the Taliban are back with a vengeance, one can see why Western Forces have a low morale in Afghanistan, why does this recall Vietnam to me so much, but worse, the Obama Administration stated that this was the Just War that the USA should be fighting, and now Obama is dithering, the request for more troops has been on his desk for weeks, why the delay, its not going to get any better, in fact it will get a lot worse. The Taliban do read Western news, they see that Obama is frightened to make a decision thus they will increase the attacks on Western troops, they want to scare Obama out of Afghanistan. The question is have the Taliban/Al Qaeda read Obama right, is he weak, is he the new Jimmy Carter.