Afghanistan Will Soon Be America's Longest War

U.S. Army 1st. Lt. Harold Castweda, center, talks with an Afghan village elder about any improvements that can be made to a mosque in the village of Dubazai at Logar province, Afghanistan, May 9, 2010. Castweda is assigned to 173rd Brigade Support Battalion, which conducted a security check of the village. U.S. Army photo by Spc. De'Yonte Mosley

Afghanistan: America's Longest War -- ABC News

Father of First American Casualty in Afghanistan: 'You Can't Remember All Their Names, There Are So Many'

Three months after 9/11, every major Taliban city in Afghanistan had fallen -- first Mazar-i-Sharif, then Kabul, finally Kandahar. Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar were on the run. It looked as if the war was over, and the Americans and their Afghan allies had won.

Butch Ivie, then a school administrator in Winfield, Ala., remembers, "We thought we'd soon have it tied up in a neat little bag."

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My Comment: After 9/11 I wrote that this war was going to be a long one .... using the Soviet experience in Afghanistan as my template for why I believed this was going to be the case. The fact that this conflict is still ongoing does not surprise me .... this is going to be a long war, and it will change only when Islam decides to confront the more radical elements within their religion.

Unfortunately .... from where I am standing .... this is not going to happen in the short, medium, or long term.