Listening to the president last night as he announced troop withdrawals from Afghanistan, I was struck by how un-soaring his usual soaring rhetoric was. True, I listened to him on the radio and didn't see his expressions, but his sentences were short and repetitive and included no rousing moments.
This war--along with its twin war in Iraq--has been a disaster. That anyone can continue to defend our presence in Afghanistan, when our own country remains in shambles and declines day by day, is beyond me.
The fact is, there is no soaring rhetoric to describe our ten unproductive years fighting a war that was never worth fighting in the first place.
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