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>But more importantly, while I'll concede a lot of bad judgments in resource allocation - I think the "reconstruction" of Iraq was a disaster from day one and I am not sure Afghanistan should have been about anything but blowing Tora Bora to hell when we knew he was there and going home - it is important to note the stuff that doesn't hit the headlines is where the important stuff gets done.

This is the sad truth as we both know. Don't you wish you could go back to being a part of the ignorant mass who only had the information available via the media (or worse yet, youtube home constructed videos of propaganda with no reliable sources)? Life was so much simpler then...