Out of Sight

It is clear that most of those I talked to in Europe, and maybe America as well, have forgotten about Afghanistan.  Europeans are consumed by the immigration crisis, though they forget that 40% of these destitute washing ashore in Greece are from Afghanistan.  Americans are consumed by trivial pop culture, and the election circus.  Few, if any, realize that there are many civilians doing the nation building. Tourists and locals seem genially sympathetic to our personal efforts and feel for my time away from family, but it is clear, they see little, if any benefit to us being there.  What can you say? Its hard to measure what success looks like in a place like this, though the military are consumed by the win-loss narrative.