Initially it was the attitude of the Afghans that we were justified in pursuing OBL and his Al Qaeda and even the Taliban and were in fact resolved to that, now the attitude is changing, because we are changing our objectives. We appear to now be meddling into THEIR affairs and who is best to rule them.
Anyway, I'm not saying that politics are not needed to formulate a new government, but to accomplish our military objectives first and foremost, then let the UN or who else try to put together the pieces. Our job now is to kill and break things PERIOD.
Apparently you have never been in combat, where your ass is on the line, and every decision must be passed thru the CIA and other intelligence agencies. Where your unit has a company of NVA cornered, out of ammo and supplies, and can be destroyed to the man, only to be told to stand down because the CIA has a double agent in that unit. This is the kind of shit I'm talking about.
The fact that OBL and Omar could have been taken out 3 days after the start of the bombing, and wasn't due to no one being able to make the decision, unless a JAG officer approved of it. Had we accomplished taking out of just Omar, it would have just about ended the conflict, more so if OBL was also taken out. But I believe that it was a CIA/Political dicision to in fact NOT take them out, because it would have ended their plans to put in place their puppet government.
The other crap you posted about being able to have gotten rid of OBL and Omar is equally false.
Osama sends his thanks for helping undermine the war effort with false statements and wild unsubtantiated rumours.