Interview: U.S. Fate Is in U.S. Hands - Zbigniew Brzezinski

Well, for one thing, the Middle East might be slightly more stable. And I had no objection to us going into Afghanistan, although I did urge our top decision makers to go in, knock out the Taliban, destroy it if we could, as well as Al Qaeda, and then get out militarily—not stay in for ten years with an ambition to build a modern democratic state within a medieval and fragmented society. - Interview: U.S. Fate Is in U.S. Hands - National Interest