I started this series of posts* as the death toll began to rise in Afghanistan. July was the first “Deadliest Month.” 43 Americans were killed. Then 45 more in August. I chronicled the continuing loss of U.S. troops with special attention to Georgians while noting my growing unease with the war.

“So with each passing day, with more of our troops being killed, I'll honor their service and sacrifice - as my heart breaks - and my questions remain,” (August 12).

This final post summarizes my reasons for reaching the conclusion I have- a conclusion not reached lightly.

But first. Just like the ones cited in my previous commentaries, so reads the following headline, then another two days later and yet another a week later.

Two Georgia Marines killed in Afghanistan

Maine Staff Sgt. Aaron M. Kenefick, 30, of Roswell and Marine Gunnery Sgt. Edwin W. Johnson, Jr., 31, of Columbus. Kenefick had been recently awarded the Purple Heart after he was injured by shrapnel. But he went back into combat.

Another Georgia Marine was killed last month as were two Georgia National Guardsmen in July.

5 U.S. troops among 50 killed in Afghan violence

Peachtree City soldier dies in Afghanistan

Army Sgt. 1st Class Shawn Patrick McCloskey, 33, of Peachtree City, was on his third deployment to Afghanistan.

President Obama has already sent 21,000 additional troops to Afghanistan If more U.S. troops are sent, it means more U.S. dead. We will have a force there by year's end of some 68,000,.more than double the U.S. commitment of a year ago. Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, is likely to soon request thousands more. President Obama has to decide - “Obama's war?” Rumblings of discontent are already surfacing in Congress. If Obama moves to deploy more, the health care debate will seem tamely civilized compared to the probable outcry to follow.. His liberal-left base - with all those Bush-hating, anti-Iraq war zealots - will have some choices to make.

I concluded my post of August 12, writing “So with each passing day, with more of our troops being killed, I'll honor their service and sacrifice - as my heart breaks - and my questions remain.”

Today, no questions remain. I now agree with George Will. It's time to get out I think other conservatives agree too and our ranks are growing.

 We should leave “by rapidly reversing the trajectory of America's involvement in Afghanistan, where, says the Dutch commander of coalition forces in a southern province, walking through the region is 'like walking through the Old Testament,'” (Italics Added).

Will argues that current U.S. strategy of protecting the population is increasingly troop intensive - and costly. That strategy should be jettisoned and replaced with one that includes a substantial reduction of ground forces and doing what we can do offshore, “using intelligence, drones, cruise missiles, airstrikes and small, potent Special Forces units, concentrating on the porous 1,500-mile border with Pakistan, a nation that actually matters.”

More conservatie voices have joined Will's call for a draw down of U.S. forces.

Should the Taliban again take control of Afghanistan, we can live with that. Let the tribal dominated Afghans deal with it. Moreover, as Will points out, Somali ranks as the only nation with a weaker state.

Many Americans, like me, have no clue what our mission in Afghanistan is or how it might end.

If Pakistan becomes seriously threatened, we and the Pakistanis can respond then. And what about Al-Qaeda? Al-Qaeda is a stateless, multinational terrorist network with regional activities in Africa, Europe and the Middle East. It isn't exclusive to Afghanistan neither is the war on terror nor are the Taliban and Al-Qaeda necessarily synonymous - both have different agendas.

A majority of Americans now see the war in Afghanistan as not worth fighting.

The long and tortured 1,400 years of the history of Afghanistan should be an omen for curtailing our involvement there.

The war, once labeled the “good war,” isn't.

The war, called the “war of necessity” by President Obama, isn't.

It's time to get out of that alien, godforsaken, barren place.

Bring Them Home.

*“The Deadliest Month,” (August 4), “The Deadliest Month, Part II,Georgia Marinekilled in Afghanistan,” (August 10) and “The Deadliest Month, Part III, The Summer of My Afghan Discontent,” (August 12), “The Deadliest Month(s), Part IV, The Summer of My Continued Afghan Discontent,” (August 28