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To be fair, our gov't didn't anticipate having to fight an enemy that wasn't a formally part of an established nation state. It was relatively unprecedented. If there was a precedent for it, please inform me of it and I will admit my ignorance of it.
We've bragged and pride ourselves on "the rule of law" and when push came to shove, we ignored our base principles. The war began with lies, fed on lies, and what survives is lies. OBL is dead. What the hell are we doing in Afghanistan? How could we have sunk so low as to ally with Pakistan, the financiers behind Mohammmed Atta? I'm afraid I view the war on terrorists as a big corporate money grab for connected (politically) contractors. The enemy should have been the Pakistani ISI from step one.