Then Iran, Taliban and Al-Queda move back in, take over, and we are right back where we started from, only worse.......
Yeah, I know. But, we shouldn't have stayed anyway.
Once we cleaned out the Taliban and Al Queda, or at least had them on the run, we should have just left....
... with a warning: If you cause us any more trouble, we are coming back just long enough to turn this place into scorched earth.
Yes, but that has been inevitable since April 2004 at the latest.
No war plan to defeat the enemy was ever approved. It is pretty clear from Feith, Bush's and Rumsfeld's memoirs that none was ever even discussed.
The retarded "freedom" plan for Iraq and Afghanistan was like the ideas of a nine-year old. All that it could ever accomplish was to postpone the inevitable endgame which you describe correctly, at the cost of thousands of American lives and trillions of Chinese money.
The whole sorry farce is disgusting.