Well, for Afghanistan it's kind of understandable, I mean this was the nation habouring the man who was the leader of the deadliest terror attack to have hit American soil. At least that's what the public were told. So you can understand the support for drastic military action in Afghanistan.
Iraq, that's a little harder and a good portion of America didn't want to go into a ground war in Iraq, but for better or for worse it happened.
Of course, few of us could have predicted the quagmire that Afghanistan would become, I guess we could and should have looked back at the previous ventures into that place and stuck to an air campaign but hindsight is a wonderful thing.
Still, like it or not, we can't think of Afghanistan and Iraq as 'them' any more, because we helped make that mess that they're fighting through. We have a choice with Afghanistan, really, and that's push back the Taliban by going back there on the ground, or prepare ourselves for the return of the Taliban as the government of Afghanistan and all the circumstances that this will bring. We have a slight advantage in the war against Daesh at the moment in that, of all people, Al'Qaeda are on our side, or at the very least are against Daesh...but Afghanistan is different and harder, and not helped by the 'on again, off again' attitude of Pakistan.
Either which way, this is just the beginning, the cards are still in the air and no-one can be sure where in the western Middle East things are going to fall, and the fallout from that power struggle will no doubt have implications for the Eastern Middle-East. To say that 'The times they are a-changin' ' is somewhat of an understatement.
