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I can buy off on your response Shaun, with a caveat - unless you and/or I have been to the mountains in Afghanistan and really judged the competence of the forces there - we're both just armchair quarterbacking.

I would also posit that any Marine worth his salt would take you to task if you called him incompetent.

All things being equal, yes, I would rather OBL's head was on display in a pickle jar at the Smithsonian. But just the fact by itself that it is not, does not say to me that our military is incompetent.