Some good points in the article, but the real reason is because we pulled most of our forces out to go fight in Iraq. We're fighting on two fronts and botching it up miserably.

If we had focused exclusively on Afganistan with full force, then issues causing such major dilemmas now would have been a matter of minor 'tweeks' to policy. We could have established permanent military bases there and controled an entire section of the Middle East with a dominant hand that no one would question after 9/11. We would be hanging Osama Bin Laudin right now instead of Saddam Hussaine.

Her 'spin' into the lack of 'divine self-interest' objectivist philosophy isn't much above an evangelical's evaluation that things are going wrong because we've lost our Christian morality.