Torog says: As for Afghanistan,again,you're not understanding the strategic implications,in order to support the leadership..we had to back off and let them handle things more directly...
Poor Torog, it is you that does not have a grasp of foreign policy and warfare...it is really sad..

Afghanistan is more decentralized NOW than it was under the tyrannical Taliban, and there is a sharp rise in violence as well as a tremendous rise in the opium and heroin trade, making the country's the world's largest producer of these drugs....

U.S. Special Forces who were trained to speak Arabic were pulled out of Afghanistan and sent to Iraq....As were many soldiers even though all evidence was pointing to Bin Laden being in Afghanistan..it was feared he would flee thru Pakistan....Bush did not make any effort to use U.S. forces to seal the border with Pakistan....like father like son....all Bush could think of was settling his dispute with "Saddam the man who tried to kill my daddy Hussein......

this administration blew a precious opportunity to use NATO "to launch the war on terror." in Afghanistan....Bush squandered the opportunity to eliminate al Qaeda.
Saying you think that Iraq was a great place to start only shows your ignorance when it comes to military strategy..Bush has strengthened our enemies by going off on a completely unnecessary tangent, the invasion of Iraq instead of holding fast in Afghanistan and due to his lack of military experience a new al Qaeda has emerged and is growing even stronger
but then what should we expect from a drunken coke head who has absolutely NO war experience....

In his latest speech Bush never referred to his earlier reasons for going to war in Iraq. He did not even mention, the word 'Afghanistan' not one time. Even though our soldiers continue to be wounded and continue to die there. It seems Bush has forgotten them. He did not tell us what became of his promise to hunt down Osama Bin Laden and the "people who claim to be responsible for attacking our country..Bush made no mention of his vice-president's "last throes" ruminations. and He certainly didn't mention the Chinook shot down in Afghanistan....

What say you Torog? How long are you going to ride this lame horse?