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Will Afghanistan Be a Forgotten War?
Spirit of America fought through the government bureaucracy to support the troops in Afghanistan. Will the rest of us stay the course?
By DANIEL HENNINGER
By DANIEL HENNINGER
We are here, and 97,000 men and women from all over the United States are in what in wartime is known as "over there"—in Afghanistan, at risk, fighting for us. When the opinion-poll people call, some 60% of Americans say they are against the war there. Some of that may be war weariness. But I hope it doesn't mean people are drawing the curtains on what is going on there, including our nation's troops. The U.S. already has one "forgotten war"—in Korea from 1950 to 1953. We don't need another one.
In 2004, when enthusiasm for the Iraq war was still tied to post-9/11 national unity, I wrote a column ("Here's a Way You Can Help the Cause in Iraq") about a group called Spirit of America, created to support the troops with aid from stateside. Readers responded with a burst of support for the new organization, founded by California software entrepreneur Jim Hake.
Even as the nation dialed back its attachments to these far-off battles between U.S. troops and Islamic fanaticism, Mr. Hake and his Spirit of America associates stayed in the game. First in Iraq and now in Afghanistan, they've continued to fill requests from commanders on the ground for the sort of stuff—sewing machines, blankets, radios, soccer balls—that is too small to register with the Pentagon's procurement bureaucracies but matters in terms of creating trust between the troops and local villagers.
Until the Defense Department made them stop.
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