claim: "we have been in afghanistan longer now than we have been in any foreign land conducting a war in our nation’s history."
author: robert gibbs
evidence_1: mar 9, 2018 ... the war in afghanistan, which is becoming one of the longest in world history, ...  more than four times longer than u.s. involvement in world war ii from ... as  mcchrystal took the lay of the land, 'i felt like we were high-school students who  had ... for 73 years, u.s. troops have been on the rhine, where their ...
evidence_2: sep 14, 2015 ... and it's doing us more harm than good. ... the united states probably has more  foreign military bases than any other ... in foreign lands than any other people,  nation, or empire in history. ... we are now, as we've been for the last seven  decades, a base ... by war's end, the global total topped 2,000 sites.
evidence_3: jan 12, 2014 ... ... robert gibbs: "we have been in afghanistan longer now than we have been in  any foreign land conducting a war in our nation's history.".
evidence_4: an unprecedented 65.6 million people around the world have been forced ... and  other afghan refugees to cross part of the aegean from the coast of turkey to ...  and conflict have been granted asylum in foreign lands for thousands of years. ...  today, a staff of more than 9,700 people in 126 countries provides protection and  ...
evidence_5: sep 27, 2011 ... since afghanistan emerged as a modern state, there have been three wars with  britain. ... calculated that the war had become a stalemate and was no longer ...  of soviet troops for more than two years but now would truly be alone. ... a year  after the taliban seized power, i interviewed un staff, foreign aid ...