In my own humble opinion, if we had to hit in the short term rather than the long, we should have had another WEEK of diplomatic efforts all round, TRYING to firm up the Coalition, a week of dropping food to the population, to make it clear that only those who STAYED with the Taliban were targets, a week for the US Military to 'acclimatise' to the environment....

(thats ONE week to do all of those things...not consecutive weeks, of course....)