I guess the dweebs at CNN thought this would get more people to read it.
It seems Wolf hasn't bothered to learn that ObL and the Taliban are one and the same.

Another Vietnam?
By Wolf Blitzer
CNN Wolf Blitzer Reports

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- During the presidential campaign last year, then-Republican candidate George W. Bush repeatedly lashed out at then-President Bill Clinton for supposedly promoting "nation building" around the world. That approach, Mr. Bush then said, resulted in disastrous policies for the United States, including in Somalia. He pledged that he -- as president -- would never engage in "nation building."

But now, President Bush finds himself in an awkward position in Afghanistan. He has ordered military strikes against terrorist targets there. But those targets -- associated with Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda organization -- are effectively commingled with the ruling Taliban regime in Afghanistan. Administration officials say it's hard to know where one ends and the other starts up.

That has created a dilemma for the Bush administration. In targeting the Taliban, U.S. officials automatically have had to start focusing on a post-Taliban regime in Afghanistan. Which ethnic groups -- Pashtuns, Tajiks, Uzbeks, or others -- will take over? Can they ever work together? Will the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance be the dominant force? Are there some so-called "moderate" elements of the Taliban that can participate in a new coalition government? What kind of regime will be supported by next-door-neighbor Pakistan?

In my daily column for CNN.com, I will share some perspective on the day's news, including behind-the-scenes background and details of conversations I've had with newsmakers. You will be able to find it right here every Monday through Friday. I'd love to get your feedback. You can always email me at wolf@cnn.com.

I have spoken with many experts on Afghanistan from inside the U.S. government and with former officials in the academic community and other experts from overseas. They all make the same point about how ethnically diverse the country is and how complicated its history has been. Beginning to walk down that road of trying to assemble a post-Taliban regime, they warn, can cause all sorts of unforeseen headaches -- and worse -- down the road.

Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, the former national security adviser during the Carter administration, says it's not too early in this war to start worrying about the consequences of trying to put together a new government in Afghanistan. He told me it's imperative that the U.S. government keep a sharp distinction between its war against Al Qaeda "and getting bogged down in an Afghan war."

He agreed that Al Qaeda and Osama's other supporters are entrenched in Afghanistan. "To that extent," he said, "we have to take on the Taliban. But I think we have to be very careful not to let the campaign against Al Qaeda become the war against the Taliban, which becomes a war against Afghans, because we can get bogged down in Afghanistan."

The U.S. must keep its eye on the immediate objective, he said, which is to destroy Al Qaeda -- not only in Afghanistan but wherever its supports are in the Middle East, Europe, the United States or elsewhere. Coming up with a new regime in Afghanistan, he says, is not central to the U.S. mission.

Dr. Brzezinksi's concerns come from his vast experience in international affairs, including living through the horrendous debate in the United States during the Vietnam War. In 1977, he joined the newly-elected President Jimmy Carter at the White House -- determined to avoid any other Vietnam. That determination is clearly reflected in his current thinking -- though he minces no words in urging the Administration to crush the terrorists.

Wolf Blitzer