[babble-on]

I'll say that going into Afghanistan post-9/11 was a requirement for Bush. Not to have done so would have been a real blow to US credibility. Maybe the error was trying to set up a government via loya jirga and putting just another mercenary in charge of the whole place. Perhaps would have been better just to ream out Omar and Osama with some alacrity, and gtfo. Assure the individuals in the Taliban that if they attack us again that they personally will die, and then let them have their rotten country.

[libstripper]

“Assure the individuals in the Taliban that if they attack us again that they personally will die, and then let them have their rotten country.”

A single sentence that brilliantly, accurately describes what our approach to that country should be.