SS,

"Standing or marching in the streets to demand a say in how you are governed is not an act of war. That's just dumb."

You see what you want to see, people are being killed in Yemen, Iran, Egypt and others by their government and or their own people. Talk to people that live in those countries they call it war and predict it will get much worse with so many competing interests. People with means have left.

Whoever thinks Afghanistan is/was a valid war is very mistaken. The people of Afghanistan never attacked us, no Taliban fighter has ever been found outside of Afghanistan or Pakistan with arms against American forces. We could have gone in an wiped out Al Qaeda and walked. What the Taliban does to its own people in its own country may be wrong but it is not our militaries concern. Attacking Afghanistan is equal to attacking Oklahoma because Tim McVeigh lived there before OK City.