He didn't put resources into Afghanistan because he was already getting ready to invade Iraq. If you raed any accounts by the commanders on the ground during the initial parts of the war in Afghanistan, they repeately requested more resources, are convinced they hd Bin Laden cornered at one point and say the reason they didn't get him was that they didn't get the additional men they asked for.
Why didn't Washington send more resources. Those commanders say they were given three reasons 1) Donald Rumsfeld was convinced that he'd found a new high-ech way to wage war that didn't require large anounts of men; 2) The admistration didn't want to be seen as invading Afghanistan and wanted to rely on Afghan forces, despite being told how unstrustworthy they were; and 3) those forces were being held in reserve for a planned invasion of Iraq.
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