Yes, it takes some weeks to get the airborne division and the marines where we want them. Yes, it takes some months to get heavier divisions where we want them, and arrange for supply train.

The thing is, we had that time to do it, had we desired. We had most of the world (including the warlords who controlled a goodly chunk of Afganistan), volunteering to help.

We controlled the time when hostilities would start. We had months; years if we wanted.

Further, if we had not the desire to do it going in, then we still had the time to do it, starting at the beginning of hostilities and by the time we needed the troops to encircle the region.

You have this funny core belief that slips out in your speech sometimes. You believe that there is only one way to do things and that is the way that your heroes did them. Anyone else could only do worse because your heros always do the best that is humanly possible. It makes me sad for you when I see you squirm in the face of such a monumental fuck up and assert that no one could do better. Creepy.