Re bush: They also refused to negotiate / reintegrate the Taliban, in particular early on when they were weak (yes, there's a lot of parallels to Iraq). Once th

Re bush: They also refused to negotiate / reintegrate the Taliban, in particular early on when they were weak (yes, there's a lot of parallels to Iraq). Once the Iraq war started there was very little attention paid to Afghanistan, for several years. Including very little effort building up security architecture. Re Obama: there clearly was a lot wrong with the Afghanistan policy. But I'm not sure I really buy the "low troop level" argument. Even at peak deployment levels (pretty darn high) under Obama the military operations weren't going particularly well. And that wasn't sustainable.