re: #348 Rightwingconspirator

Osama made the Afghanistan decision for us. Same as Japan at Pearl.

On Iraq, I agree with you.I happen to think Saddam would have done something that would have to be dealt with by his removal at some point or another. Like Arab spring maybe. But I merely speculate.

Osama didn’t force us to stay there for a decade. He didn’t force us to occupy the country.

Once it was clear we had failed in our mission there, that AQ had merely been displaced into border territories, and that OBL was no longer in Afghanistan, we should have gotten the hell out. That’s the problem with the US militarily: we never admit failure, even when it is absurdly obvious. We just keep chucking our young men into the grinder, hoping we will get different results; one definition of insanity.

Occupying Afghanistan is a fool’s errand, and it always has been. The British know this, the Russians know this, and now America knows this. Funny thing is, Osama knew this too. He planned on it.