bsharporflat:

opus, your arrogance is hard to comprehend. You think you know what is best for a nation of millions of people and you are willing to force your way on them. Funny, how clear it is to you that the people of Afghanistan didn't vote the Taliban into office. Neither did they vote to have the USA show up and start running things, but...hey, there we are. And there we remain. The need for election fraud to prop up the current US installed government would suggest the people of Afghanistan do not want US soldiers there.

Regardless of what you think of the current operations in Afghanistan, the burden is still on you to provide a reasonable alternative. Given the strategic goal of denying al Qaeda the ability to conduct mass-casualty operations against U.S. interests (especially the homeland), then what should the United States have done? "Taking out" a few terrorist training camps using special operations forces (even if that were possible) would not accomplish that goal.