It has taken the United States ten years, over $400 billion and more than 2,421 US and coalition lives to get to this point. Since those who fail to understand their history are doomed to repeat it, it is imperative that we ask what lessons can be learned from Afghanistan as those such as Senator's McCain (R-Arizona) and Graham (R-South Carolina) call for greater involvement in Libya, and the US struggles to find common ground in Israel.

President Obama announced this past Sunday evening that "al-Qaida's leader and symbol" Osama bin Laden had been killed, "Tonight I can report to the American people and the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden ..." This is a good thing. President Obama can now fly onto the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln and stand under the "Mission Accomplished" banner that his predecessor prematurely unfurled on October 29, 2003.

It has taken the United States ten years, over $400 billion and more than 2,421 US and coalition lives to get to this point. Since those who fail to understand their history are doomed to repeat it, it is imperative that we ask what lessons can be learned from Afghanistan as those such as Senator's McCain (R-Arizona) and Graham (R-South Carolina) call for greater involvement ...  more on TruthOut.