As American troops withdraw from Afghanistan, all that remains in the broken country is the tattered remains of American arrogance. This, combined with the fact that few body bags came home during the 19-year conflict, Americans gradually lost the awareness that we were still at war in Afghanistan. Countless Afghans and Pakistanis have lost their lives because of these strikes and tragically, they are forgotten, seen as collateral damage in the mission to secure American exceptionalism in Afghanistan.