"How long have US troops been in Korea?"

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The answer is since 1950. But the point is that a senior military official (unnamed) answered with those words when asked how long we will be in Afghanistan. With a secret number (4000 by most accounts) of troops being added to the 8400 or so left, our mission is now to "win," "to kill terrorists," "to attack" in the words of our eloquent president last night. We had 100,000 troops there at one time and did not "win", though we did kill a lot of Afghan citizens, some presumably terrorists. Anyway, a journalist asked this senior military leader how long we might have troops in Afghanistan and he answered with the title question. We've been fighting and dying and killing there for 17 years now. Not long enough, I guess.