It was a war of choice. It was the lily-pad stop to Iraq. But as the saying go, if you break it, you fix it.
Oh yeah, any rudimentary understanding of the Bible lays clear, it is all about generational wars.
It was a war of choice because our nation was attacked.
We went in, we went to war, we lost. Exactly how many decades before you admit defeat or sheer ineptitude at the art of war?
I was against the Iraq war, but pro Afghanistan war - just so you know my historic Bush stances. I stopped voting because of him. I still have the same stances, but I'm back to voting.
As far as the Bible where war is concerned it's the history of over 3,000 years of a particular people's history. Since the history of the world is also the history of war, we definitely expect the history of any people to follow that same track over the course of 3 millennia.
But there's something specific we are taught from their history:
1.) if we are threatened we fight in defense of ourselves and our borders and our way of life
2.) what is ours is what God has given us, and when we lose a war we settle down and act like good conquered citizens until which opportunity comes from God to change those circumstances
Which means - don't be like Hamas, or some few of the Zealots of Jesus' day and keep fighting uselessly after you lost the war, after we soundly lose a war we just give to Caesar what is Caesars and wait upon God, and if we are the conquered people we live like the Babylonian Jews during their exile, build houses and plant and seek to live peaceably among them.
Which means, no generational war according to Scriptures.
I truly think 10 years anywhere should be more than enough to win any war with modern technology.
Trump wasn't calling it until well past that, so it's not some crazy thing to say we need to leave these poor people alone and let them live as best they can.