Originally Posted by kane

His argument was that we needed to go into Afghanistan and that we were actually doing well there, then the administration got off track and became obsessed with invading Iraq. In his opinion Iraq was a conflict we didn't need to be involved in. Not only was it expensive in the cost of lives and money, but it took our focus off of Afghanistan. He argues that had we not invaded Iraq and instead kept our focus on Afghanistan we could have achieved our goals there and gotten out of there in relatively timely manner.

He goes on to say that now Al Qaeda is starting to organize in Iraq and the best we can hope for in Afghanistan is a situation where a leadership is elected that can effectively organize the country and fend off any Taliban insurances once we eventually leave.