Save our troops from futile death in Afghanistan

This is already our nation’s longest war, and it shows no sign of ever finishing according to plans. It will end when some president decides he has had enough — or when some future president decides to fight the war to actually win — assuming we have the resources at that point to carry out a victory strategy. We do not currently have such resources in our military.

Until that day comes, we will continue to lose 50, 100, 150 of our finest troops every month. Many more will come home with terrible injuries to the brain and limbs.

I do not understand how, as a country, we can continue to send our troops into that cauldron with no rational expectation of success.

Our nation’s longest war is quickly becoming our nation’s most pointless war, although it didn’t start out that way.