War in Afghanistan turns 16, earns driver's license
AFGHANISTAN — It seems like only yesterday US troops launched their first airstrikes on Afghanistan in October 2001. Now, the war has grown up and earned its driver’s license.
The war’s proud parents — the 1979 Russian Invasion of Afghanistan and the First Anglo-Afghan War of 1839 — are amazed at how time has flown for their young war, whom they call “Operation Enduring Stalemate."
“He was so innocent in those first days of 2002, just after 9/11. He was such a ‘good war,'" the parents said.
But just over a year later, the War in Afghanistan had a baby brother, the War in Iraq.
“Well, you know how it happens. Along comes a new war and suddenly all the attention goes there instead of to the older sibling,” said the war’s mother.
Sources indicate the War in Afghanistan has gone through many phases as it has grown up, including its youthful innocence phase, its “well, at least it’s not as bad as Iraq” phase, the “let’s leak a classified assessment to get more troops” phase, a “why are our own …
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