re: #342 Dark_Falcon

Until the situation in Iraq settled down, Afghanistan seemed relatively stable. We’d already done most what we came to do, so refocusing on Iraq seemed prudent at the time. That was the reading of the situation at the time, and it was not a bad one, given what we thought was true. And after we were in Iraq, it assumed greater importance simply because Iraq is a more important country than Afghanistan.

We should never have gone into Iraq in the first place. Iraq was never more important because Iraq wasn’t responsible for the deaths of thousands of US civilians.

It’s too late to debate the entire legitimacy of the Iraq War. Raincheck?