Military Watershed: Longest War in U.S. and Afghan History by Rick Rozoff http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/75435

"Despite the pledge by President Obama that after what was touted in advance as a victory in Kandahar and throughout the war-wracked nation to begin drawing down U.S. and NATO troops in 2011, all indications are that Western forces will remain in Afghanistan long after that. Far longer than any foreign military power has ever stayed in the nation before in a war that is already the longest in American history."