and I think the number is actually a lot less than that. The troops are otherwise employed at the moment. There simply aren't enough men or trucks or roads in the area to feed 6 million people scattered over thousands of square miles.

It all comes down to logistics - the few roads that exist are vulnerable to attack. Should we drop everything else and hope the Taliban doesn't kill our soldiers while they try to feed the Afghan people? Sorry, but we're not going to do that.

Simply put, the humanitarian organizations aren't able to work in Afghanistan at the moment so we have to look at what can be realistically accomplished. We have to deal with the hard realities of what actually _can_ be done, not what _might_ be done under ideal conditions. Afghanistan is a combat zone. Until that changes, the innocent are going to suffer as they've done in wars throughout history.