Lost in the excitement over ISIS, the battle for Khobani, and the possible threat to Baghdad is news of the nation’s longest war, the one in Afghanistan, which the President once called a “war of necessity.”

Now, Senator Carl Levin, who is retiring, believes the that morale on the home front might cancel out what he sees as success on the battlefield.  As reported by Travis Tritten in Stars and Stripes, Levin recently warned that