Mariner, tell me why we are over there? in Afghanistan?
Hell Kate, you've heard the story before:)
It started as an effort to depose the Taliban and make 'em pay for hosting those terrorist camps that trained those 911 bombers and many others.
However, then those damn politicians got involved and things got out of control.
We should have been out of there at the end of 2002, mid-2003 at the LATEST.
Mission complete.