>The United States was (and is) morally justified in military strikes against those who supported Al-Q. Period.
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OBL was killed in Pakistan.
There are roughly 200 million people in Pakistan- a nuclear power that can threaten India and other powers in the region.
We know that some of them support Al-Q.
Somehow, we didn't see them in the same light as a bunch of rag-tag Afghans who proceeded to make fools of us.

>How specifically that should be done/prioritized/etc. is up to the military experts. I'm not suggesting that we should take action every single time it is justified - but the fact remains that it all starts with a moral case to defend ourselves.

Yes.
Good leaders know how to figure out how to do that.
Our leaders spent a trillion dollars, slaughtered hundreds of thousands of innocent people, and lost the war.

It tickles me when "analysts" describing a golf match where a player had to make a ten foot par putt to tie a match say he lost the match by missing that putt.
That player lost the match by creating that situation in the first place.
As I said, Joe did both.
He - we- started the mess and he failed to clean it up.
I really doubt that there was a way to clean it up, but we'll never know that now.