America has lost multiple wars in the desert and been chased out of Afghanistan. The American military is currently struggling hard with the Houthis, and the proxy war in the Ukraine of all of Nato is going Putin's way. The combined manufacturing might of all of Nato can't beat the "gas station masquerading as a country". Giving all the manufacturing to China and other countries was a huge mistake. Likewise, attempts to break Russia with tariffs failed miserably. Is America even still a global super power at this point?
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As would Pakistan, the place where UBL was actually being hidden.
Something something security for Afghani poppy fields…
Of course, doesn't make for a good headline if they say "we dug up Bin Laden's corpse after he passed from kidney failure in 2004" so they kept up the charade of him being alive for a decade afterwards.
Partly why almost everyone who couldn't keep their mouth shut were shot down in a helicopter crash 3 months later. Google it; the "2011 Afghanistan Boeing Chinook shootdown". Taking care of loose ends.