U.S. Army Spc. William B. James shoots at the enemy during a firefight that lasted more than three hours at an Afghan National Police Checkpoint in Kunar province, Afghanistan, Sept. 18, 2010. James is assigned to the 327th Infantry Regiment's Company D, 1st Battalion, Task Force Bulldog. An estimated two dozen insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades, heavy machine guns and small arms at the post. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Gary A. WitteNew Generation Of Troops Inherit Long Afghan War -- Washington Post/AP
MARJAH, Afghanistan -- Lance Cpl. Jacob Adams was in 5th grade math class when hijacked jetliners slammed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. His parents took him out of school early that day.
Adams, 20, is now serving in a Marine battalion battling Taliban gunmen, many of whom were also just kids on Sept. 11, 2001. He's part of a new generation of U.S. troops inheriting the wars spawned by the terror attacks.
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My Comment: It is hard to believe that 9 years have passed by since 9/11, and that we have been fighting wars since then .... correction .... multiple wars since then. But historically, a lot of wars have taken years to burn themselves out, and I expect this to be the case for Afghanistan and (a lot longer) on the war against terror.
How much longer .... let me put it this way .... Europeans fought against Muslim expansion and conquest for centuries, from Jerusalem to the final siege and battle at the Gates of Vienna hundreds of years later. I do not see us at war for centuries .... but decades .... now that is a possibility, even if it is a low intensity conflict.