“Afghan war has gone on longer than WW1 and WW2 combined.”
Not if you use like definitions.
Explain?
What was the objective of the Afghan war? to rid the country of the taliban? Done years ago. To get OBL? He was in Pakistan and he’s been caught/killed.
But still there...
Iraq: Saddam was overthrown almost immediately and “mission accomplished” declared by the president but it still went on for too long.
Politically Iraq was devastating for the GOP. We lost the House and senate in 06 and 08 and because some of the blue dog morons were left over in 2009 they rammed through Obamacare.
It’s just not good policy. Declare the wars and the Congress has more control rather than the office of the presidency (whomever occupies it)