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.
Guess what? They once again have the same. Again, we all knew it in the beginning. We all knew what was going to happen once we decided to withdraw. A previous poster mentioned the fact that we no longer fight to win, and that was certainly the case in Afghanistan. The whole place should have been turned into a glass parking lot.
I posted at the time that I agreed with the "Bush Doctrine" of fighting Islamic terrorists as a military action over there instead of fighting them as a police action over here.
Just look at how the Left has "progressed" to defunding the police today. Imagine how they would have reacted to engaging terror cells running rampant across America in 2001-2004 and beyond? We even had liberal defense lawyers smuggling messages to jailed terrorists back then.
It was best to pick a ground, whether it be Afghanistan or Iraq, and let that be the magnet for drawing the enemy in, instead of waiting for them to make the second move in Boston or Chicago or Miami or Los Angeles, or Indianapolis or Dallas or Salt Lake City or Tulsa.
-PJ