geauxtohell
Choose your weapon.
It's Nationalism because you still believe invading afghanistan had anything to do with defending the US. It's well known SA has protected and funded alkida:
Kagan helped shield Saudis from 9/11 lawsuits | Raw Story
That's just one minor blip. Moreover, the Taliban were not exactly best buddies with bin laden.....which is why they offered to help turn bin laden over to a third party if the US provided evidence bin laden had a role in 9E. They weren't asking for a first born child or even a court conviction. They simply asked for evidence and we had none to offer. Doesn't that send a red flag?
Call it what you will.
Under the code of pashtunwali the Taliban would have never given up Bin Laden and no amount of evidence we presented would have been sufficient. Nor was the Taliban's offier:
CNN.com - U.S. rejects Taliban offer to try bin Laden - October 7, 2001
sufficient.
Bin Laden and AQ were guests of the Taliban before, during, and after 9-11. The Taliban wouldn't surrender them. We were entirely justified to go into Afghanistan.
I know we'll never agree, but the underlying notion that we trumped up charges to go into Afghanistan for whatever reason is absurd IMO. They have nothing that we need.
Okay. All I can suggest is you do some serious studying on why we invaded and will continue occupying Afghanistan. It appears you believe you have sufficiently researched the issue and the worst part is you've decided to close your eyes.
I've heard all the conspiracy theories out there. I've also read extensively on Afghanistan. I'd venture to say that I've read more about that country than any other person on this board.
I don't buy the pipeline conspiracy or any other conspiracy about Afghanistan. Afghanistan's only utility is that it sits in between be central Asia and the Arabian Sea. It is hugely important to the region (which is why the Soviets invaded in '78. They wanted to get to Lahore. Not support the Afghani Communist Party).
However, it has literally nothing to offer us.
Even if we stole all the resources we know about in Afghanistan, it would be a fraction of what we've spent there.
I don't know if you've ever been there, but that country basically consists of tough terrain and tough people.