Great piece.
“Our Afghanistan campaign after September 11 was fast, clever, and ruthless. The men who conducted it understood the society. They worked together with warlords to crush the Taliban. Their goal was a quick and dirty victory that would make an example out of the Taliban”.
Imagine the alternate history had Bush had the wisdom to stop when we had exacted revenge. Same can be said for his foolish occupation of Iraq. 20 years of grinding our military and our economy into the dirt could have been avoided.
“Imagine the alternate history had Bush had the wisdom to stop when we had exacted revenge. Same can be said for his foolish occupation of Iraq. 20 years of grinding our military and our economy into the dirt could have been avoided.”
My son did 4 tours there and was lucky to come out alive.
BUT, Afghanistan and Iraq didn’t grind either our military or our economy into the dirt.
Heck, Democrats are already planning to spend multiples of what was spent over 20 years in the next few months.