Quote Originally Posted by Loki View Post
You must have missed the part where Bush also said that we're there to destroy al-Qaeda and international terrorism in general, not just to capture one individual. So yes, it was just your imagination.
Okay, so you were just a teenager then. But your university education and considerate thought since then should tell you how utterly futile Bush's goals were. There is no way to combat international terrorism by deploying military troops. Guns, bullets, and tanks can kill Bin Laden or destroy people pledging alliance to Al Qaeda, or Taliban, or any other extremist group, but military force can't destroy an ideology.