A matter of scale perhaps?
Anyone wonder how Obama will deal with this? Will he invade Pawk-e-stahn, as he said during the campaign?
Possibly. He has something to prove in the way of national security credibility, so he may just turn out to be far more aggressive and less of a milquetoast than Bush about killing vast numbers of evil ragheads.
Democrats can get away with much more than Republicans, and are hardly ever criticized, when it comes to dealing with our enemies.
There will be no weeks upon weeks of front-page Abu Ghraib stories during the Obama reign, no matter what our troops do.