Wolfgang: come down from that tree. "let us praise Bush for not having made a mess of/in this Muslim country?????!!!!

The USA set up the Taliban - using the very Pakistani security forces that Camerrhoid got upset about recently- to destroy the (Russian backed) secular state of Afghanistan, where women had rights and education, and the ability of mullahs to mull was severely restricted.

The Great Game- the US played it, beat the Russkies out, and then it came back and bit them- in a rather spectacular way.

Bush then invaded to get rid of the Yanks' FrankensTaliban. The rest is beyond the end of history.

Can you imagine a worse mess?