[Wonder Warthog]

"To all the people who thought putting boots on the ground in Iraq or F ghanistan, or any other muzzy country for that matter".

The problem isn't "putting boots on the ground"....it is KEEPING boots on the ground. US strategy should be the following....if any country attacks us in any manner, even to the extent of harboring terrorists, we will go in and remove by firing squad the leadership of said country...and LEAVE. Nation building be damned. If Bush I had done what needed to be done (see above) in Gulf War I, there would have BEEN no Gulf War II, and no Obama presidency (and likely no Clinton presidency).

[bigheadfred]

You said it better than me. Thanks.

[Sarajevo]

If Bush I had done what needed to be done (see above) in Gulf War I, there would have BEEN no Gulf War II, and no Obama presidency (and likely no Clinton presidency).

Yep. Bush1 should have let Saddam keep Kuwait, and also let him have a sizeable chunk of Saudi Arabia. Since Saddam's treasury was broke, he would have sold us oil at an economical price, and Saudi Arabia would have made a great HazMat dump.

Then we could have concentrated on Pakistan and their part in the rise of the Taliban/Al Qaeda.