I really don’t get the whole argument that we’ve taken our eyes off the ball. What, do they expect us to put a half a million troops in the mountains of Pakistan? Did they expect us to invade Afghanistan and then say, “Well, that’s all taken care of.”?
Yes that’s exactly what they wanted us to do. They wanted us to invade Afghanistan after 9/11, but, they wanted our military action limited to catching Bin Laden. I think Obama mentioned Bin Laden about 8 times tonight. They wanted us to only go to Afghanistan, and not follow Al Qaeda if they turned up in other places.