Divine Wind
Platinum Member
Disagreed. We could work with the pro-Western forces in Pakistan, an element that largely didn't exist in Afghanistan because the Taliban had eliminated them.We had a double standard of what we tolerated from Afghanistan and what we tolerated from PakistanWe worked with Pakistan on that issue, but the situation in Pakistan is delicate.Yet when AlQaeda and Bin Laden escaped into Pakistan, we did nothingAfghanistan wasn't justified, the Afghans had nothing to do with 9/11. That's like invading Italy to get at the mafia.Afghanistan was fully justified. Agreed on Iraq. That was about greed, but I do not think it was GW's idea. Both Cheney and Rumsfeld were both well known to be supporting a strong US presence in Iraq. It cost us.
The government of Afghanistan was shielding Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. They were given the opportunity to give them up- and decided against it. I am okay with our invasion of Afghanistan.
Iraq was a stupid distraction from our war in Afghanistan- and is in large part the reason why Afghanistan is such a mess today.
Decided to invade Iraq instead
OTOH, the night we "invaded" Pakistan to take down bin Laden, the Paki national defense radar just happened to go down. Coincidence?