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if we re going to fight two of the longest wars in american history, if we re going to fight those wars simultaneously and we re going to have such a tiny proportion of our population actually serving in the military, people doing three, four, five, six combat tours, we owe it to them to try to understand what their lives are like at war. what s being asked of them and what s the strategic justification for putting them through this. that s our mission here on this trip. we re here to figure out as much as we can about these two questions, about this american war. does this make sense? what s it like here? we start here at kandahar airfield which they say is the busiest single runway airport anywhere in the world. kandahar has both a military side and civilian side, so we started off the fourth of july by flying commercial from kabul to kandahar, a fairly atypical fourth of july at least in my lifetime. we landed here. the flight took about an hour. last night before we came down her

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