Originally posted by TopHatter
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It had to be long enough to show you were serious and that anybody any where in the world trying the state sponsorship thing thinks twice. Coming over, bumping off the errant administration and then returning does not have the same effect.
You created a couple of sandboxes where all the guys that did not like you could come over to play. Taking them out of other countries effectively. Draining the swamp. What long term effect this has for future jihadi recruitment remains to be seen.
Very few over here dispute the reasons behind the invasions, the occupation is another matter.
But in the larger scheme of things i don't think they were failures. I hope not.
The expectation is you should be insured for a generation or more.
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