[r9etb]

I’m not trying to be a RHINO, but having served in Iraq, and worked with and around the intelligence community one has to wonder why Afghanistan and Pakistan was still not the main effort for the WoT...

Because Iraq would be the proper place, if your strategic goal was to deal with Iran...

[TopQuark]

Iraq would be the proper place, if your strategic goal was to deal with Iran...

and Syria. Both Syria, now sandwiched between the see, Israel, Turkey and American forces in Iraq, and Iran, sandwiched betwee our forces in Agfhanistan and Iraq, are largely incapacitated. When we withdraw... well, that's another matter.