The next President of the United States of America must decide whether to withdraw our troops from Afghanistan or expand our involvement there. Having lived through the long years of the war in Vietnam, I can tell you that Afghanistan looks and smells like Vietnam. It is the classic wrong war in the wrong place.

In a time when most Americans are understandably occupied with concerns over the economy and their own bottom lines (to say nothing of the presidential election), it is worth noting that we still have numerous international obligations, with our presence in Iraq perhaps the most apparent at the moment.