Word: knocks
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...depends on the goal. If it's to knock down the Taliban and get a post-Taliban government installed, then that can't be achieved very quickly. Especially if elements of the Taliban continue to fight on after they've lost power. So we're simply going to have to hold Pakistan's hand on this...
...Well, that may have been true from the very beginning, to the extent that the question is how the mission is defined. That may be why the military is saying it can knock down the Taliban but not necessarily deliver Osama bin Laden. The first is a relatively easy task for the U.S. military; the second is nearly impossible. The President speaks of delivering bin Laden dead or alive, but he and his advisers know that's a desire rather than a pledge on which they can deliver...
...named Richard Clarke, a National Security Council aide, as his counterterrorism czar to supervise the battle both at home and abroad. Clarke was hamstrung because he had no control over other agencies' budgets. But he made a strong case for having one person oversee the attack on terrorism and knock heads in the bureaucracy...
...going to be a typical military campaign. The U.S. military believes the Taliban's grip on power is brittle, and that like crystal glass, it may shatter if it is hit in the right place. They know they can't knock it out from the air. And they also have doubts about the military usefulness of the Northern Alliance. But they suspect that the Northern Alliance's willingness to fight and the discontent of the wider population with Taliban rule might be enough to drive them out of power. The big question now is how much indigenous support the Taliban...
...eerie foreshadowing of the World Trade Center attack, the writer John McPhee explored with nuclear physicist Ted Taylor the question of how you could topple the Twin Towers with a small atomic bomb. Positioned correctly, McPhee reported, a nuke a tenth as powerful as Hiroshima's could knock a tower into the Hudson River...