Utah mayor killed in Kabul the latest victim of perpetual US presence in Afghanistan

Why is the National Guard in Afghanistan?

Shouldn't the National Guard be guarding the nation, or a least Utah?

The US serviceman killed in an insider attack in Kabul is identified as Brent Taylor, a mayor from Utah. While shocking to some back at home, this is only the latest such incident in a war that even top brass now call unwinnable.

North Ogden city mayor Major Brent Taylor was deployed to Afghanistan with the Utah National Guard at the beginning of this year. Taylor’s trip to Afghanistan was the fourth such deployment for the father of seven and was due to last one year.