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Originally Posted by SentToStud
No, not true. I fully expected the Afghanistan foray to fail. I've never been to Afghanistan but I have been to Turkey and Armenia and the terrain there is similar and it is such that it's impossible to find anyone. You can look for miles in any direction and see nothing but rocks. I just remember thinking, "they'll never find bin Laden."
I would have been all for bin Laden's assasination but by covert means. Frankly, I assume we've been trying that as well for years and no luck there either.
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Morty again attempts to hijack a thread with drool and spittle. Morty you can go off on a tangent concerning foreign affairs and policy. But leaving pure saliva behind to dry is getting old. If you want to be entertaining, the routine has got to evolve. Your trampling the same grass over and over. Its dead.
SS. We had him. We had Bin Laden dead. And the decision to let some locals go in and root him out ruined it. So in this case if we had just been brutal and brushed aside local "intervention" he would be a dead man. Not that it would change anything. Just like the capture of Sadam, it did nothing to rectify the broader picture.
And the success in getting rid of the Taliban for a while was immense. But our little foray into Iraq took away much of the success we did have in Afghanistan. So this looks like another situation that is not good that might have been without our extra big problems. I would not have known this at the time. So you are ahead of me.