One thing you have to think about is the fact that 40 people have been killed there, while in Korea, almost that many people were lost by 3 Battalion RCR in one evening. This is not a declared war. That one was.
You can call it a police action. You can call it a United Nations operation. You can call it anything you want, but it was a war, and it was declared a war by the government. Afghanistan, to the best of my knowledge, has not been declared a war by the government.