That 'stepping in' point coincidentally being when they stopped killing the people who overthrew our oil-rich puppet in Iran, and decided to remove our oil-rich puppet in Kuwait.
As for Bin Laden, as I said in a post the other day, the Afghans offered to hand him over if we provided some evidence against him. We didn't.
Whereas before 9/11, when we didn't give a rat's ass about terrorism because it only happened in other countries, we thought nothing of refusing extradition requests, by one of our closest allies, for wanted terrorists in the US.
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