[Gdzine]

That is a really good point, how many more fighters would be trained if we didnt hadnt shut the Taliban down.
In reality most of the 18000 fighters joined Al Qaeda during the Clinton Administration

[Law is not justice but process]

Any training camps Al Quaeda is operating now are clandestine and small. If the ranks of Al Quaeda are increasing, they are increasing at a much lower rate than before the fall of the Taliban.

We eventually would have had to deal with the Taliban Era trainees, even if 9-11 never happened, even if we never destroyed the Taliban, and even if we never deposed Saddam. The good news is we have 2000 fewer to deal with now than before the WOT. 2000 in Hell or in jail, 18,000 to go.

[Licensed-To-Carry]

I don't really care how many are in Iraq, as long as they aren't in the USA. It's a lot easier to kill 'em over there.