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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.
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Funny enough those were almost my exact words here on GFY for the last 10 years. I always understood why we went to Afghan and I gave Bush support for doing it. Everyone from the CIA whom actually ran the first stages of the war to the troops whom later followed did an outstanding job in Afghan.
The Bush/Cheney neo cons however cost us the war when they altered tried to half ass it so they could invade Iraq. We would have long been out of Afghan with good results had Bush and co not dropped the ball.
Now it's likely worse than when we started same as Iraq.