(May 8, 2014 at 9:59 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: Um, no. Since we don't have infinite resources and power, we have to prioritize what we wish to accomplish. A decision was made to put Al Qaeda on the back-burner and make Saddam the top priority. We effectively traded catching Bin Laden for removing Saddam. That was part of the decision to go to war when we did.
Hope you can answer some of my other objections.
Well if we don't have infinite resources and all of them should be directed at defeating Al Qaeda......then why did Obama waste some of those resources on Libya?
Al Qaeda didn't take a back burner. It was on the front burner right next to Iraq.