Well, not everyone. There were protests throughout the length of the war. A lot of people looked at the history of US intervention, of foreign intervention in A

Well, not everyone. There were protests throughout the length of the war. A lot of people looked at the history of US intervention, of foreign intervention in Afghanistan, and at the motivations of the people calling the shots, and said, from Day 1, "This is not going to work out." Aaron McGruder famously had their number, and reached out daily to Americans whose newspapers hadn't canceled publication of his strip (https://www.gocomics.com/boondocks/2016/12/13 https://www.gocomics.com/boondocks/2016/12/13). They were right, most Americans were wrong, and I don't know if we'll ever fully reckon with that fact. On that note, I hope people are listening to Sarah Kendzior's work these days.