The war in Afghanistan goes on and on and on

First it was about the hunt for Bin Laden. We had him in our sights and then we blinked. Then it was about the end of the Taliban. We supported opposition groups and the Taliban capitulated but the opposition morphed back into the Taliban. We supported a strongman as president and he largely has been the mayor of Kabul while hoovering up the billions into personal accounts we threw at him for nation building. We railed against Bush because it was his war (as well as other things)  and now it's Obama's war and bigger than ever, supported gleefully by the war mongers in congress as they want to be swayed and even the "doves" who have been psy-oped by the military. Meanwhile at home we have economic chaos, horribly wounded soldiers, military families that can't make ends meet and abroad total loss of any shred of respect we ever had.