If that was the case, I daresay we never should have gone in to begin with. Bin Laden could have been taken out without invasion. We all knew this in the beginning. We also knew it would fall the moment we left. I remember having many discussions here on FR during that time about that very thing. At times, I was lambasted for my beliefs, because we were all starry eyed patriots just chomping at the bit to get back at em for 9/11. Well, here we are!
The US decided in April of 1951 to not win wars using all out military force like World War II.
General Douglas MacArthur was fired by President Harry Truman for wanting to take the war to China after it intervened in Korea.
George W. Bush led this nation down the path of another Vietnam with his Republican Establishment Neoconservative cronies tough talking patriotic rhetoric etc. etc. masked the true policy.
Al Qaeda came out of Saudi Arabia a business ally of the USA.
The Taliban created by Pakistani military intelligence. Pakistan a nuclear weapons nation allied with China.
Trump knew this and tried to find a fighting way out of this massive and costly quagmire but oops he’s no longer in the White House.
Two completely different topics. You can’t go back in time and change what was done in the past. Making disastrous decisions on the manner in which you withdraw has nothing to do with that.
And you were wrong then, and you are wrong now as to the issue that was at hand. Al Qaeda had its own country to gather assets and have training camps to carry out their terror attacks - that was the issue - not just getting the single person Osama Bin Laden.