We’ve now been in Afghanistan so long, that we don’t even think about it that much.  People want to forget that we have this unending war in a country far far away, and that we are spending hundreds of billions of dollars on it at the same time that we have 40 million+ Americans on food stamps, 1/5th of our children living under the poverty line ($18,000 for a family of 4), and we rank 26th in the world in education.

Our country is falling to pieces, and we are wasting our resources (human, financial, governmental) on a conflict that most Americans don’t want us in. 

Here’s a great NYT Op-ed piece by Bob Herbert on this topic.  If you’re not already mad, hopefully this piece will make you so. 

Our biggest danger is complacency and acceptance of this unacceptable state of affairs.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/26/opinion/26herbert.html?scp=2&sq=bob%20herbert&st=cse