We Are The Mighty: One of the most recent soldiers killed in Afghanistan was 5 when the war started
Army Spc. Gabriel D. Conde's short life spanned the history of U.S. involvement in Afghanistan since Sept. 11, 2001, from the euphoria over the fleeting early successes to the current doubts about the new strategy to break what U.S. commanders routinely call a "stalemate."
When Conde was six years old, then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said the Taliban had been defeated and the Afghan people were now free "to create a better future."
He was seven years old when then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said, "We're at a point where we clearly have moved from major combat activity to a period of stability and stabilization and reconstruction activities."
When Conde was 12, then-President George W. Bush was at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan to declare that "the Taliban is gone from power and it's not coming back."
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WNU Editor: This war has been ongoing for far too long.
