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Taliban comeback

Disagreeable

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Remember the Taliban? Remember Bush's promise to get Bin Laden?

"Almost five years after the US invaded Afghanistan in retaliation for 9/11, the Taliban appears on a comeback trail, sparking a renewal of ethnic and warlord-based conflict with an overlay of ambition from neighbors. In confronting a powerful Taliban resurgence in southern Afghanistan, the Pakistan-US alliance is also at odds. Complicated politics and unrest place Afghanistan’s moderate government at risk, while Pakistan’s military regime relies on the crisis to perpetuate its rule and maintain a buffer against increasing Indian influence in Afghanistan. NATO pledges commitment to stabilizing the one-time Taliban stronghold, yet many Afghans suspect that the US plans to ease operations and withdraw. If the US does decrease troops, it would have to depend on the Pakistani military to hold the Taliban in check. The Pakistani military, unpopular with Afghans, also faces opposition at home. Despite the US campaign for democracy and ongoing friction between the two countries, Washington could end up supporting Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf in his reelection bid. – YaleGlobal"

I will point out, too, that the people who first bombed the Twin Towers, while Clinton was president, are in jail or dead, unlike Osama. Remarkable. They were caught quickly, tried legally in a court of law, and sent to jail. Oh the days of a competent Administration. :cry:

More at the link:
http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=7451
 

BBJ

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Lets see I can cut and paste too :shock: http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/12/5/153637.shtml

Bill Clinton ignored repeated opportunities to capture Osama bin Laden and his terrorist allies and is responsible for the spread of terrorism, one of the ex-president’s own top aides charges.
Mansoor Ijaz, who negotiated with Sudan on behalf of Clinton from 1996 to 1998, paints a portrait of a White House plagued by incompetence, focused on appearances rather than action, and heedless of profound threats to national security.

Ijaz also claims Clinton passed on an opportunity to have Osama bin Laden arrested.

Sudanese President Omar Hassan Ahmed Bashir, hoping to have terrorism sanctions lifted, offered the arrest and extradition of bin Laden and "detailed intelligence data about the global networks constructed by Egypt's Islamic Jihad, Iran's Hezbollah and the Palestinian Hamas,” Ijaz writes in today’s edition of the liberal Los Angeles Times.


These networks included the two hijackers who piloted jetliners into the World Trade Center.

But Clinton and National Security Adviser Samuel "Sandy” Berger failed to act.

”I know because I negotiated more than one of the opportunities,” Ijaz writes.
”The silence of the Clinton administration in responding to these offers was deafening."

You can read the rest of this story at the above link.... I know how you so love links. :lol:
 

Disagreeable

Well-known member
And Ronald Regan gave Bin Laden money and weapons when he was fighting the Russians in Afghanistan. There are those who claim that Bush let Bin Laden go at Tora Bora, just as he refused to kill al-Zarqawi when he was hiding in northern Iraq under Kurdish and US protection. So what?

9/11 hadn't happened when Clinton was president. It happened on Bush's watch. He promised to get Bin Ladin. Today Afghanistan is edging back to the brink. Why? Because Bush wanted Saddam and diluted our Army to send the majority to Iraq.

You can speculate and post quotes all day. What we do know is that the people who bombed the Twin Towers are in jail. The man who masterminded the destruction of them is wandering around laughing his behind off at us. You choose to support a failed Administration, go ahead. :D
 
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