So much of this mess can be traced back to George W. Bush. Douglas MacArthur warned us not to get involved in a land war in Asia.
But W knew better, as did LBJ before him.
W should have bombed every possible terrorist site. Make the rubble bounce. But no. He went for an occupation. Ground troops. Translators. Nation-building.
And so here we are.
As I like to say, a punitive expedition to Afghanistan to take out OBL would have been fine. The NeoCon “Nation Building” BS was a really, really bad idea.
I don’t mind ground troops rolling them up. We should have then rolled up Pakistan.
After we then made a few pyramids from skulls and burned them all under a hundred thousand Qurans, we should have left.