Afghanistan

War in Afghanistan was inevitable since the rigid Islamic government of Taliban leader Mullah Muhammad Omar insured safe harbor to Osama bin Laden leader of al-Qaida terrorists who killed 2978 innocent people September 11 2001 in Manhattan the Pentagon and a Shanksville Pennsylvania pasture.<p><p>Bin Laden said the U.S. was targeted in retaliation for: 1] its support of Israel 2] building a military base in Saudi Arabia home of Islam's holy sites Mecca and Medina and 3] its decadent popular culture. There was an additional human factor that encompassed U.S. troops in a strange land. Thus the story wound itself around feuding warlords poppy fields political clout of the Northern Alliance Tajik Uzbek and Hazara clans who supported the U.S.-led war and the larger Pashtun clan that allowed the terror.<p><p> The Taliban government was overthrown in a month al-Qaida's power was greatly diminished. Afghanistan held a Loya Jirga adopted a constitution and the<I> people</I> elected a president for the first time in the nation's 5000-year history.<p><p>The collective we (U.S. Great Britain Australia Norway Denmark Poland Italy et al.) did that with the will of the Afghan people!