This country really went off the rails after 9/11.
We had bin Laden cornered in Tora Bora when Bush yanked all the troops out for his little Iraq adventure. Had we just finished the job and gone home, hundreds of thousands of lives would have been spared (not to mention untold trillions of dollars). What a tragic waste of time, money, and lives. It will take generations to undo this mess.
I wonder what Bush had on Tony Blair – why did he go along with it? (Interesting bit in the Economist about this, had the UK not gone along with the plan it may have been enough to stop our blunder. No speculation offered though on what was in it for Blair).
