Reply #7: These are questions that should be directed to Bush and Cheney

[HamdenRice]

That said, as someone who was in lower Manhattan on 9/11 and saw the destruction and carnage, I don't agree there was NO reason to invade Afghanistan. Even though I'm a skeptic about the official 9/11 story and have posted about how infiltrated AQ was by foreign intelligence agencies, those same sources show that there was indeed an AQ organization that was indeed involved in 9/11 and that did indeed need to be destroyed.

That could have happened within weeks of the invasion, and certainly could have been completed at Tora Bora -- another mystery of the Bush era. It seems obvious that the Bush administration did everything in its power to prolong our involvement there -- but that's a question that should be directed at Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and that entire criminal gang.

Why is the Obama administration there? Because the Bush administration had us already mired when the Obama administration took office. That seems to me to be pretty obvious.

It also seems obvious that it's a war that we can extract ourselves from. How we extract ourselves is a question that people will disagree about.

It seems to me that the Obama administration is following the model of Iraq -- surge, Afghanistanize the war, and leave as quickly as possible.

It's not what I would do, but it's hardly a desire or prescription for endless American involvement.