On September 11th, 2001, a plane crashed into the twin towers. It was globally established that Bin Laden was behind the attack. It was believed that the Taliban was hiding Bin Laden in Afghanistan, and we wanted him. I think it was totally acceptable to try to find a terrorist in another country that is attacking our own.After trying to negotiate a capture of Bin Laden, the US launched a formal attack on Afghanistan on October 7th, 2001. More specifically, the Taliban. The war started off as a military operation called Operation Enduring Freedom. The aim was to find Bin Laden and other high-up Al-Qaeda members and to put them on trial. The US Bush Doctrine stated that it was a policy to not destinguish between terrorist groups, nations, and gov'ts that harbor the fugitives.One of the initial attacks removed the Taliban from power. Sadly enough, they've started to regain power. Afghanistan has seen increasing numbers of insurgent activity. (Basically rebel attacks) There are also record-high numbers of drug production. All of these combined with a weak gov't aren't a very good mix. Unfortunately, when it comes to restricting Al-Qaeda activity, the war isn't going as well as expected.President Bush was really for the war. He kept putting money into it. Democrats tried to put a time limit until troop withdrawl to go with the money, but Bush said he would veto such a decision, and he did. Recently, support for the war has dipped to a new low, and Obama may be forced to send more troops into his 'war of necessity'. I think we just need to hurry up and show those Al-Qaeda terrorists who's boss. Too bad it's not that easy.
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