Osama who?

Does anyone even remember why we have soldiers fighting and dying overseas? Apparently the people we let run our government don’t. Even the President recently said: Osama? I don’t know where he is … I don’t think about him much.

As a country, we suffered a great wound on 9/11 – and we went to war with Afghanistan, the country that provided the training of the terrorists responsible for that attack. We removed the Taliban from power and scattered the people that controlled AlQaeda to the four winds. Then, suddenly, before we were even half through with that job, we pulled our troops out of Afghanistan and went into Iraq, leaving a shadow of the necessary force required to hold an rebuild a country we’d proudly “bombed back into the stone age.”

Power abhors a vacuum. The Taliban have regained control over a large portion of Afghanistan. That portion gets larger every day. And, according to the New York Times, “core AlQaeda” (meaning Osama Bin Laden and his immediate circle) have re-established the chain of command necessary for that terrorist group to function effectively throughout the region.
This is beyond ridiculous. I know I'm only a little bear, but surely things can be better.