Russia waged a disastrous nine-year war in Afghanistan. In its ninth year, is the U.S. faring any better? In 2001, the U.S. invaded Afghanistan to remove the Taliban government in response to the destruction of the World Trade Center. In 2010, according to a recent poll by the Associated Press, roughly 6 out of 10 Americans disapprove of Obama’s “good war,” which has seen the loss of over 1100 U.S. lives. In September 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, taking its airfields and executing its president, H. Amin. Within 9 years, the Soviets lost close to 15,000 soldiers in the...