Remember when capturing him "dead or alive" and eliminating his Afghanistan-based al Qaeda, as Bush promised, was what the War on Terror was all about?

Instead the president got distracted with his idiotic invasion of Iraq where al Qaeda had been effectively banned by the secular dictator the U.S. deposed. Now we are left holding the bag in two desperate countries with bleak futures where perpetrators of 9/11 are reportedly thriving and guerilla warfare and...