“I honestly can’t speak to the overall tactical wins or losses, or whether that is what this conflict has even been about in the end,” she said.

“But simultaneously, there is a sense of bitterness against the politicians and bureaucrats for big-picture incompetence.”įor Kristen Rouse, a logistics officer who deployed to Afghanistan in 2006, 20, it’s difficult to square the images of Taliban leaders posing for photos at a luxurious Doha hotel as they hammered out the peace deal with the Americans with “the evil they committed against innocent civilians.”Īnd after almost two decades of war, it was hard to figure out what had been accomplished, Rouse said. “That the soldier in question, alive or dead, did their job - they won the battle on the ground, as they were trained to do - there is comfort in that,” Fennessy said. soldiers to go to waste, and by mistrust, worry and rage over the peace deal. While he is proud of what he and his fellow soldiers did in the country, those feelings are blurred by his anger toward leaders who have allowed the sacrifices of thousands of U.S. Séamus Fennessy, who fought in Ghazni province in 2010, said he feels a range of emotions - none of them positive - about the peace deal with the Taliban. invaded the country in October 2001, to destroy al-Qaida after the 9/11 attacks and oust the Taliban, who had harbored the terrorist group.Īrmy Staff Sgt. Just over 2,440 American service members have been killed in action in Afghanistan in nearly two decades of war, which started when the U.S.

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