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Indeed, created by Uncle Sam (since we're the ones who toppled the dictator). So, you think that since the United States is who created the power vacuum, that makes it less important for us to prevent Al Qaeda from filling it? It's ok to let Al Qaeda fill the power vacuum because we created it? Bizarre.

Well if somebody owned a glass company and they went around town breaking windows, I wouldn't commend them on how well their company is doing.

What you don't understand is that we didn't merely "pursue a rogue gang of thugs" in Afghanistan. We actually did topple that foreign government, remember!?! And nowadays, there's not all that much "pursuing" we're doing in Afghanistan. We're mostly there safeguarding the new government we've put in the previous government's place.

You're right, we did topple the Taliban, do you understand that like Hussein in Iraq, WE put the Taliban into power? How many governments are we going to install and topple in foreign countries and how does that endear us to anyone?

You seem to see this huge difference between what we're currently doing in Iraq vs. in Afghanistan but there isn't one.

You are quite right, there isn't one. My bad.

Well if somebody owned a glass company and they went around town breaking windows, I wouldn't commend them on how well their company is doing.

Nobody's asking you to "commend" anyone, just to look at the current situation objectively. To try to fit in with your rather cartoonish analogy, your position amounts to saying that if the police break the windows of a business, they shouldn't defend that business from thieves, they should only defend businesses with broken windows if the windows weren't broken by them.

do you understand that like Hussein in Iraq, WE put the Taliban into power?

You're saying that you think the United States "put" the Taliban into power in Afghanistan and Saddam Hussein into power in Iraq? Oh boy. Appears I overestimated how seriously I should take you. Sorry, my mistake.