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...gently remind him that battles are won not with dash but usually with numbers. If Afghanistan had been fought Rumsfeld's way, we might still have commandos mounting up on horseback to hunt down the Taliban. If the war had been fought Franks' way, we might have nabbed Osama bin Laden a long time ago--but only by having 100,000 G.I.s in position beforehand. It's a slight exaggeration to say Franks and Rummy are a bit like the tortoise and the hare: one man is always in a hurry; the other takes his time. But it is fair...
...different trajectory. The war in Afghanistan was an operation that was initially run by the CIA but gradually became a more traditional Centcom show. Franks didn't exactly wow the White House at first. Bush and Rumsfeld were impatient with the war's progress; the U.S. let bin Laden get away at Tora Bora, and a year later the search for the remnants of the Taliban continues. Franks had been set to retire in mid-2002, and if the Bush team had wanted to change generals, it could easily have done so. But Bush asked Franks to stay on duty...
...trail went cold sometime in December 2001, when Osama bin Laden slipped away from the caves and forests of Tora Bora in eastern Afghanistan into the wild White Mountains that stretch along the Afghan-Pakistani border. The precise date on which he left Tora Bora isn't known. Pakistani intelligence claims that he was gone as early as Dec. 8, when a bungled operation by American special-operations troops and their local allies to flush al-Qaeda leaders out of the mountains had only just begun. But one former Taliban fighter says bin Laden slipped away when the besieging forces...
...Iraq? Why now? And where is bin Laden? There are bigger fish to fry but we are being dragged into this war,” Goldman said...
...attack proves that terrorists are still out there, and as dangerous as ever. Despite the crackdown around Southeast Asia since late 2001, some very troubling characters remain at large, including Riduan Isamuddin, a.k.a. Hambali, JI's operational commander; Saifullah Yunos, a.k.a. Muklis, leader of a JI cell; and Azahari bin Husin, allegedly the man who designed the Bali bombs. And those are just the most wanted?a roster that doesn't include members of sleeper cells that may be lying in wait across the region. What's more, a U.S.-led war in Iraq could be a powerful rallying issue...