1. Afghanistan is even more screwed up than South Vietnam ever was and more corrupt

2, Wars were more manpower (draft) intensive in the 1960’s and therefore the American people got to turn against the Vietnam war unlike Afghanistan which is fought largely by Blackwater type mercenaries and career volunteers

3. Ironically, the communist threat was far more scary (60,000 nukes and 1.5 billion people) than the Taliban threat – but nothing stops us from staying in that bathtub of manure playing Whack-A-Mole for $ 100,000,000,000.00 ++ per year