War is a quagmire, generals are incompetent, the public never learns from lessons...

My summary of the war in Afghanistan, the longest war in U.S. history it has been said, which is also described the same way in the recent Rolling Stone magazine article, in which comments by General McChrystal and others caused President Obama to replace McChrystal today with General Petraeus, so as to continue the same policy that McChrystal, Patreaus and Obama have followed, with the loss of lives and billions of dollars wasted, having just seen the weekly photos on the PBS News Hour of young soldiers recently killed in Iraq and Afghanistan: "QUAGMIRE."