While I agree with most of your comments and fervently dispute the need to have ever gone to war with Iraq, I still think Afghanistan was a "necessary" war. Its waning unpopularity is likely a result of bad execution, implementation, and the inevitable absence of any possible clear "victory".
I'm reading Sebastian Junger's War and watched his documentary Restrepo on the subject. Afghanistan is infuriating, sad, tragic, terrifying...
While I agree with most of your comments and fervently dispute the need to have ever gone to war with Iraq, I still think Afghanistan was a "necessary" war. Its waning unpopularity is likely a result of bad execution, implementation, and the inevitable absence of any possible clear "victory".
I'm reading Sebastian Junger's War and watched his documentary Restrepo on the subject. Afghanistan is infuriating, sad, tragic, terrifying...
Read the book!
If anybody's interested in the book the movie is based on. Great read.