Word: tora
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...global network of law enforcement and intelligence officials. Many of the victories in the War on Terror have come due to the cooperation of other nations, and specifically with their local law enforcement. John Kerry understands that while major deployments of American troops may sometimes be necessary (as in Tora Bora, where Bush let Afghan troops allow Al Qaeda and the Taliban to escape), real success can only be achieved through increasing global cooperation...
Actually, Kerry's best moments in this saga have come when he challenged the President's foreign and defense policies. Kerry distinguished himself two years ago by criticizing Bush for not using U.S. troops to attack the trapped al Qaeda leadership at Tora Bora. That sort of detailed, sophisticated critique has vanished from Kerry's repertoire. He hasn't had anything of interest to say about the humiliating American retreat from Fallujah--a city that has subsequently become a miniature rogue state within Iraq--or about the mystifying, flip-floppy U.S. attitude toward the Shi'ite revolutionary Muqtada al-Sadr...
...Afghan campaign was one of the most brilliant and economical in military history. Nonetheless, one battle, Tora Bora, was a failure, probably allowing Osama bin Laden to slip away. Is this the stuff of apologies? Did Lincoln apologize for his army's letting Lee get away at Antietam...
...Afghan campaign was one of the most brilliant and economical in military history. Nonetheless, one battle, Tora Bora, was a failure, probably allowing Osama bin Laden to slip away. Is this the stuff of apologies? Did Lincoln apologize for his army's letting Lee get away at Antietam...
...Hussein was when it invaded Iraq. It took nine months to find him. Now the government doesn't know where the WMD are or even if they exist at all. It didn't know where Osama bin Laden was when U.S. troops went to the Afghanistan cave complex called Tora Bora in 2001, and it doesn't know where he is today. There is no evidence of a link between Saddam and the 9/11 attacks. Americans have been misled. If U.S. self-protection mandates unilateral, preemptive strikes against any nation that Washington chooses, American leaders had better be right...