Obama missed Afghanistan ‘transition’ opportunity, retired Army general says

With U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan lasting two decades, four presidents share at least some portion of the blame for last week’s deadly Kabul disaster, a retired Army general says.

Afghanistan was "the place where al Qaeda made the plan to hit America and the Twin Towers. We went in there for the right reasons," Pittard recalled last week in an interview with Border Report, just two weeks before the U.S. marks 20 years since terror attacks ended some 3,000 lives in New York City, the Washington, D.C., area and a field in western Pennsylvania. "At some point, maybe when Osama (bin Laden) was killed, it was probably time to transition." It was former President George W. Bush who initiated the Afghanistan operation, in response to the terror attacks, because the Asian nation was believed to be a safe haven for terrorists.