[jola]

Frosty, I very much liked your post.

I think one of the major issues with Iraq was shaky intelligence with people in high places having questionable motives.

Tsar, I do not think bin Laden liked the West before America turned her back on Afghanistan. I think he was choosing the lesser of two evils at the moment, which was the USSR. Also, I don't really see "You should have stayed out" as a solution, but rather more like hindsight.