I guess we started this war? What alternative do you think would've been appropriate, letting the Taliban stay in power after harboring an international terrorist organization that killed 3,000 of our citizens?
Not that invading and taking over whole countries was ever the right answer, but Afghanistan and Iraq wouldn't have been my first choice:
-Fifteen of the 9/11 hijackers were
Saudi, trained and financing by yet another
Saudi native – Osama bin Laden.
-The Saudi National Guard bombing in November 1995, which killed five Americans. All four of the men convicted and executed for the bombing were
Saudis.
-The Khobar Towers bombing in June 1996, which killed 19 Americans. Of the 14 men indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice for that bombing, 13 were
Saudi Arabian, including all five of the men who drove and detonated the truck bomb on the day of the attack.
-The Nairobi embassy bombing in August 1998, which killed 12 Americans. Both of the men who drove and detonated the truck bomb were
Saudis.
-The USS Cole bombing in October 2000, which killed 17 Americans. Both of the men who drove and detonated the explosives-laden boat used in that attack were
Saudis.
-The Riyadh residential compound bombings in May 2003, which killed nine Americans. All nine of the suicide bombers killed in the attacks were
Saudis.
-The Mosul mess tent bombing in December 2004, which killed 18 Americans. The lone suicide bomber responsible was identified in numerous press reports as a foreign insurgent from
Saudi Arabia.