How America spent 20 years in Afghanistan, only to have the Taliban resume control again as its troops withdrew, will be a topic for historians to ponder for decades. Here's how four presidents have approached what became America's longest war.
Implicit in that statement is the belief the war shouldn't have been passed to him, nearly 20 years after it began.Each president since 2001 has confronted an evolving mission in Afghanistan, one that resulted in tens of thousands American and Afghan casualties, frustratingly futile attempts to improve the country's political leadership and a Taliban that stubbornly refused defeat.
Shortly afterward, Obama announced he would begin bringing US troops home with a goal of handing off security responsibilities to the Afghans by 2014.Over the next years, troop levels declined steadily as the US engaged in fraught diplomacy with Afghanistan's leaders.
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