re: #353 Rightwingconspirator

So helping Afghanistan try have a sane elected government is such a bad idea?
That is the other side of the coin you present.

Then we have the argument that the reason Osama even had a chance to organize there was the fact Afghanistan was abandoned by the west after the Soviets left. So we should have just bombed the mountains (missed Osama for sure) and abandoned the place again to it’s own tribal warlord self? And risked the Taliban AQ alliance attacking big time again and again?

I’m not impressed at all by this policy “alternative”.
Neither were two Presidents.

Perhaps if we had kept the pressure on the Taliban in the early days, instead of letting them regroup we wouldn’t have this mess now. But we diverted our attention to Iraq. Then President Bush declared Mission Accomplished in Iraq and claimed we had defeated the Taliban in Afghanistan forever.

It is what it is now, but those who blame this debacle on Obama takes all kind of crazy. We are getting out of Iraq.