Yep. And that could be part of the problem. Perhaps if we are not sufficiently threatened to declare war, we shouldn't get boots-on-the-ground involved at all.
IMHO, Bush II should have declared war against the Taliban right after 9/11. He should have asked for an actual war resolution, not some vague authorization to use force. We were sufficiently threatened.
But were we also that sufficiently threatened by Saddam? I don't think so.
IMHO, Bush II should have declared war against the Taliban right after 9/11.
It was an operation Financed and Perpetrated by the House of Saud, and that is who the declaration should have been against. The Taliban is a Straw Man.