Ok, we were attacked, 911, horrible absolutely horrible and I as much as anybody screamed we need to find who did it, teach them a lesson. Osama is responsible for it. Great, let's get him! We're on it! We're getting him.

Wait, Iraq is a threat, they're evil. They will attack us. Sadam must go down, lets get him too. Ok good idea, not sure about 2 wars but lets get him.

Now then here we are years later.
The one responsible for attacking us, roaming around free, as far as we know. Nothing confirmed, but we're still after him.

The one who might attack us, we caught.

So here's my problem, the one who did attack us, we can't find. We're supposedly working hard to catch him, but we can't. You don't hear of us losing that many soldiers there, so obviously we either a)don't have many there or b)it's not that big of a mission c)it might not be the horrible place to operate we were told. Iraq, we supposedly took care of the mission, but we're still there, we're losing more good men and women daily, and are we even getting closer to having anything fixed.

To me, if someone punches you in the head, they should be a bigger target than someone who might punch you in the head. I mean technically everybody and anybody might punch you, but if someone has punched you, you know what they can do.

I don't think we really care to catch Bin Laden. I think it suits our purpose to not catch him, gives the government more lattitude and freedom to do other things. Now if we decide Syria is a problem, we report them having something, we scream remember 911, we scream they are supporting terrorists, and we would be there the next day attacking.

I'm sorry, I appreciate the terrain and such of Afghanistan and how difficult it is to get those people to talk or report things, but my God is it easier in Iraq? I mean you're talking the same kind of religious idealogy, the same problem with families and families of families, etc, but yet for all the horrible conditions that there are there, we can't find Bin Laden, we're working hard on it there but we don't lose soldiers. The math doesn't add up.