Congress has declined to reimburse the National Guard the $521 million it spent during its months long deployment to Washington DC leading to a decline of readiness.
The twenty-year war in Afghanistan was plagued by an inability to accept victory conditions when presented. That is why the objective turned into nation-building.
In his weekly column, author and presidential candidate Pat Buchanan describes the failure of the U.S. mission in Afghanistan, and why nation-building was a mistake from the beginning.