The problem with Afghanistan is that it was fought from Florida, not from the theater. These guys had to have permission to do anything and to get it they had to talk to someone still asleep in Florida. Lots of bad guys got away because of it. And not just at Tora Bora. i remember reports of convoys and the guys couldn't get permission to fire fast enough so they got away. There were lots of complaints about that. But that fault belongs with the pentagon, not the president. Presidents don't fight wars, generals do. They know they made mistakes in Afghanistan, and a lot of those were corrected for the war in Iraq. We learn our lesson and move on. Bin Laden looked pretty defeated to me.
"These guys had to have permission to do anything and to get it they had to talk to someone still asleep in Florida. Lots of bad guys got away because of it. And not just at Tora Bora. i remember reports of convoys and the guys couldn't get permission to fire fast enough so they got away."
Much of these problems have been corrected. For example, there was a report of an armed drone detecting a major Al Qaeda target, possibly Bin Ladin himself, early in OEF. The lawyer in CENTCOM recommended not firing since there was a house located nearby that might have held civilians. Such PC claptrap has been corrected.