[ChildOfThe60s]

The purpose of our original attack in Afghanistan was payback for 9/11. In 90 days we had decimated them. On day 91 we should have left lock-stock-and-barrel.

I am guessing that most of the people in this country don’t even remember what happened to the Soviets when they went into Afghanistan. You don’t teach history, no one learns from it.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Should have never had a boot on the ground.
90 days of B-52 missions would have been sufficient.
Bounce the rubble until nothing is moving.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Afghanistan: Graveyard of Civilizations.

[hinckley buzzard]

The purpose of our original attack in Afghanistan was to go in and get BinLaden, who was known to be in hiding there. Deposing the Taliban was a means to that end. That led Bush to venture into nation-building with the quasi-constitution, installing the puppet Karzai, and the rest is history.

[null and void]

Posted 05/15/2007 10:31:20 AM PDT by null and void

I think we made a fundamental mistake in the post 9/11 world. The message we should have sent was:

You F with our country, not only will we track you, personally, down and kill your worthless butt, and as many of your equally worthless kin as that mission takes, but your entire country and/or those that supported you will simply cease to exist.

Afghanistan should have been fragmented along ethnic lines into mutually warring pissant regions, and the same fate should have befallen Iraq.

Turkey, who wouldn't allow us to stage on their turf would be rewarded with a hostile Kurdistan on their border...