After 8 years of Obama suddenly the Afghan war is an issue again.
After 17 years of occupation it should be
What American ‘ freedoms” are our troops dying for on Afghanistan’s plains?
We can plan a mission to Mars but we cant eradicate the poppy fields? The labs the Taliban and ISIS are competing to control? Making the Taliban look like the lesser of evils.
Count the Anericans dying from heroin as collateral damage of a failure of honesty about our strategic policies
Yup. Wars only matter when a Republican is in the White House.
Frankly, I'd blame the continuing war on the Afghans themselves. Of course, being mostly mohammedans, they really can't help being duplicitous and weak willed.