Nation Building 101

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Riiiiiiight

There was no smoking gun in Afghanistan. We should have pressed the Taliban to give up bin Laden and organized some kind of $100M aid package that would convince them to give him up. Then we would have him without violating the soverignty of that country.

There was a quagmire on day 5 of the war. Some people called it a "supply pause" but tw knew better from his understanding of Vietnam.

I wager your accuracy rate of analysis is about the same as mine, which is to say they're both at about 50%. We don't have the information to make your kind of flying leaps because the media is more interested in covering official press conferences and wildly speculating about them, than in gathering and reporting information.