9 years.

[rug]

On October 7, 2001, early combat operations including a mix of strikes from land-based B-1 Lancer, B-2 Spirit and B-52 Stratofortress bombers; carrier-based F-14 Tomcat and F/A-18 Hornet fighters; and Tomahawk cruise missiles launched from both U.S. and British ships and submarines signaled the start of Operation Enduring Freedom - Afghanistan (OEF-A).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Enduring_Freedom

[csziggy]

1. K&R

[kenny blankenship]

2. Chin up - only 10 or 20 years more to go!

[uppityperson]

3. k&r for what an awful night that was.

[Change has come]

4. K&R

:kick:

[KittyLover]

5. I rec'd the thread too, rug.

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[Turbineguy]

7. But the first 7 years

was a Bush operation.

[Hannah Bell]

8. longer than the civil war or ww1 or 2. & we barely see it on the news but it's

always there, enduring nightmare.

[TexasObserver]

9. Longer than the civil war and WWII combined.

It's little more than a place the military industrial complex can mine for their gold.