HIndsight is a pretty nice tool Too bad as we discovered exactly who was responsible early on we did not have all the information at hand...that said...they were 99% Saudi and Saudi Arabia is LUCKY we didn’t turn their land into glass. Too bad we need their oil.
Not hindsight really. This was all known at the time. Also, there were several commentators who advised against dubbing this national effort a “War on Terror.”
Real ‘hindsight’ would have been to suggest that US forces should never have left Saudi Arabia after the first Gulf War. IOWs, ask the King what he plans to do about it if we decide to stay?