The Afghan winter? No joke--I saw that lame, discredited excuse for the imminent defeat of American forces just this month on the enemy propaganda pages (the "news" propaganda, not the "editorial" propaganda) of The New York Fraud and Treason (formerly The New York Times), motto: "Giving Aid and Comfort the the Enemies of the United States since the Civil War."
Ah yes.."the brutal Afghan winter"...soon replaced by "the brutal Iraqi summer." The NYT wonders how we survive at all, in places without air conditioning.