The Obama administration is rushing to submit to Congress a Strategic Implementation Plan that will include a host of statistics (or metrics) that will define “success” in the Afghanistan war. But author Tom Engelhardt has produced his own set of metrics so Americans can determine for themselves if the war is really with funding and fighting.

• Number of American troops killed in 2001: 12.

• Number of American troops killed in 2009 (through September 7th): 186

• U.S. troop levels in 2002: 5,200.

• Expected U.S. troop levels in December 2009: 68,000.

• Annual funding for U.S. combat operations in 2002: $20.8 billion.

• Annual funding for U.S. combat operations in 2009: $60.2 billion.

• Percentage of U.S. funding that has gone for military purposes: Nearly 90%.

• Estimated cost of staging the 2009 Afghan presidential election: $500 million.

• Number of complaints of voting irregularities: More than 2,500 and still climbing, 691 of them described as “serious charges.”

• Percentage of Americans opposed to the war: 57%, according to the latest CNN poll, an 11% rise since April. Only 42% now support the war.

• Percentage of Republicans who support the war: 70%, according to the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll.

• Percentage of Americans who approve of Presidents Obama’s handling of the war: 48%, according to the latest CBS poll, a drop of 8 points since April. (Support for increasing the number of troops in Afghanistan is now at just 25%, down 14% from April.)