How are you enduring your freedom?

My column this week:

Saturday, Oct. 7, was the fifth anniversary of the start of U.S. military operations in Afghanistan.

Dubbed Operation Enduring Freedom, it was the first military campaign of President Bush's War on Terror™. When he announced the start of Enduring Freedom to the American public, President Bush said that the mission's objectives were "to disrupt the use of Afghanistan as a terrorist base of operations, and to attack the military capability of the Taliban regime." In addition, the mission was "designed to clear the way for sustained, comprehensive and relentless operations to drive them out and bring them to justice."

In other words, the United States invaded to crush the Taliban and al-Qaeda, and bring Osama bin Laden and his henchmen to justice . . .

Read the rest, won't you, please, uh-huh?