Today’s NRO podcast is with Michael O’Hanlon, co-author of Toughing It Out in Afghanistan. O’Hanlon is a neocon-ish Democrat, for which he endures an endless wave of attacks from the Left. We discuss what’s at stake in Afghanistan, why the next couple of years matter so much, and his claim, which I hadn’t encountered before seeing it in his book, that “Afghanistan has become America’s longest war.” (It depends on how you define America’s role in Vietnam; if the start date begins with the “introduction of main combat forces,” then we’ve been in Afghanistan longer.)