As the World Turns

The press tells us that the misbegotten war in Afghanistan has become the longest war in our nation's history.
It also lists the newly dead there this week as a 31-year old sergeant from San Antonio, a 25-year-old lieutenant from Grass Lake, Michigan, a 25-year-old lance corporal from Cameron Mills, New York, a 26-year-old sergeant from Eight Mile, Alabama, and a 24-year-old airman from Erwin, Tennessee.
The toll thus far: 1,090.
Meanwhile the Congress continues to shovel billions of dollars into that war and that other war (that we are assured we are winding down) in the same neighborhood.
And our nation, as a nation, shrugs.