terrorism in afghanistan, getting the terrorists and stopping attacks morph into a counter insurgency, nation building, trying to create a democratic cohesive and united afghanistan, something that has never been done over many centuries of afghan's history. we have been a nation too long at war. if you're 20 years old today, you have never known an america at peace, so when i hear that we could have, should have continued the so-called low grade effort in afghanistan, at low risk to our service members, at low cost, i don't think enough people understand how much we have asked of the 1% of this country who put that uniform on, who were willing to put their lives on the line in defense of our nation. there's nothing low grade or low risk or low cost about any war. it's time to end the war in