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Flint,
To put all of this into proper perspective, you have to:
1.) Blame Carter for killing the “human intelligence,” or spies, within the CIA. This continued under every president since. With no solid intel, we really didn’t / don’t know what is going on with these characters.
2.) Blame Regan –my hero- for cutting and running in Afghanistan after helping drive the Russians out in the mid 80’s. This power vacuum is what OBL filled and how he got his foothold into the Islamic world. Consider that fact the next time someone says we need to pull out of Iraq!
3.) Blame George the First for no allowing the Middle-East, much less Afghanistan, to be on his foreign policy radar.
4.) Now you can blame Clinton for his ineptitude / lack of courage / distraction, etc.
George W was left in a bad position by all of the above, and candidly, one has to wonder if he made the same decision you or I would have made. At the very least, he didn’t pass it on the next administration.
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'17 Cayenne
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