Who’s Getting America into These Never-Ending Wars? American troops entered Afghanistan on October 7, 2001. They didn’t leave until almost 20 years later—making the “War on Terror” the longest war in American history. Rep. Eli Crane of Arizona says Congress is largely to blame. “It’s almost as if they’ve never seen a war that they didn’t want us to be involved in. It’s almost as if they’re incapable of asking the question, ‘Why are we involved in this war?’” Catch the full Signal Sitdown episode