I’m trying not to forget, by the way, that I was wrong about Afghanistan.
February 2007: Wow. If you actually look up what I said about Afghanistan… well, here it is:
There are good reasons why the U.S. would not want to invade or occupy Afghanistan or Iraq or Yemen or whoever. It would take a long time, and there would be an enormous cost in lives. It would likely introduce instability into a potentially volatile region. It would create a large pool of new, future terrorists. It would create alarm and concern in China and Russia and Pakistan. If the U.S. occupied the nation, it would have to constantly contend with terrorists and insurrectionists.
It would result in disaster.
How about that? I was wrong.
I was wrong when I thought I had been wrong about Afghanistan.