Security continues to elude Afghans eight years into US-led war<br /><br />The September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York led to the US-led invasion of Afghanistan.<br /><br />However, as Washington turned its attention to Iraq, the situation in Afghanistan deteriorated.<br /><br />The Taliban and its allies are reportedly resurging, supplied and operating from bases in Pakistan and well financed by the opium crop.<br /><br />And while the US has all along stressed a strategy for a better living standard for Afghans, for many there has been little improvement, with poor or non-existent electricity supplies and complaints of little investment in agriculture.<br /><br />Eight years on, and with a high number of US and Nato casualties, Barack Obama, the US president, has said the conflict is still worth fighting, saying it is essential to the country's defence. <br /><br />As Al Jazeera's Tom Ackerman reports from Washington, the war former President George Bush began shows no signs of ending in the near future.
