We have - I hope - now internalized as a country how wrong that viewpoint is. I'm not sure that we have. The single most important concept of the Afghanistan

We have - I hope - now internalized as a country how wrong that viewpoint is. I'm not sure that we have. The single most important concept of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars is the vast, yawning difference between going to war primarily to stop one organized government from attacking another and going to war to effect regime change on a country. The former is very easy to do with a powerful professional military and the latter is effectively impossible. I don't think the difference has sunk in for most Americans.