re: What should the USA have done after 11 September 2001?

1. The operations in Afghanistan should have been purely punitive, no nation building.

2. Once AQ fled into Pakistan the operations into Pakistan should have been punitive as well, not the under the radar stuff we tried to do and are still doing.

3. In relation to Iraq, we should have told Saddam we made a mistake in 1990 and it was time for him to take down the Islamists in Saudi Arabia, the home of the majority of the terrorists and helped him do it.