Carlos Barria / Reuters Since publishing a book on America’s age of unwinnable conflicts a couple of weeks ago, I’ve been asked hundreds of questions about topics ranging from ISIS to Ukraine, from the military-industrial complex to reinstating the draft. But I can’t recall a single person asking me about the war in Afghanistan. This is surprising given that the U.S. military campaign in Afghanistan is not only ongoing, but has cost nearly 2,500 American lives and hundreds of billions of dollars, is teetering somewhere between stalemate and loss, and represents the latest chapter in America’s saga of intractable conflicts. …read more
Source: The Atlantic
