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Yep - with Afghanistan there was an obvious and direct link between the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden/Al Qaeda. And with nation-building in a place as fucked-up as Afghanistan extremely difficult, time-consuming and expensive, I felt that the bar for attempting another such nation-building exercise needed to be exceedingly high, and I never felt that the Iraq situation topped that bar, not without a lot more international support in both troops and funding.
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