[The_Rorschach]

For the record, our actions in Afghanistan are classified as involvement in a 'low intensity conflict.' Not a war.

I'm not trying to resort to semantics or anything, honestly, but in such instances it pays to be precise. America hasn't declared war on another world power since WW II, and that distinction is important; Both in terms of how our presence and influence in the region should be understood as well as weighing the use - or misuse - of American miltary personnel by our elated politicians in engagements which are conducted without concise goals and terminated with unclear results.