With Little Fanfare, Afghanistan War Drags Into 13th Year
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SWJ Blog Post | October 6, 2013 - 7:58pm
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With Little Fanfare, Afghanistan War Drags Into 13th Year by Heath Druzin, Stars and Stripes.
Monday marks 12 years since the U.S. invaded Afghanistan, and for a conflict that’s been seemingly forgotten by most Americans who’ve grown weary of war, it seems fitting that the anniversary should be overshadowed by a domestic story: the federal government shutdown.
More than a decade since the U.S. launched Operation Enduring Freedom on Oct. 7, 2001, there are still 54,000 American troops in Afghanistan. That is more, by far, than at any time during the first seven years of the war, yet these days, they garner scant news coverage. Most recently, Syria’s civil war and the use of chemical weapons as well as the federal government shutdown have buried Afghanistan news, even as Americans continue to die - were killed were killed within a week in so-called insider attacks just at the end of September.
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