WARDAK, Afghanistan -- They used to call Afghanistan "the forgotten war."
They should rename it "the long war." Not only because it's been going on for eight years now, but because it's going to have to go on even longer if the West is to achieve even measured success in this broken country.
Wardak province, just west of the capital, Kabul, where I've spent the last three weeks with the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division, illustrates this perhaps even more powerfully than the country's more war-ravaged areas in the south.