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Eight years ago this week, Osama bin Laden watched and then celebrated as a terrorist attack he had authorized brought down the World Trade Center and part of the Pentagon, slaughtering thousands of innocent Americans.
Bin Laden was, at that time, in Afghanistan, which was, at that time, ruled by the Taliban. Soon, U.S. forces and their anti-Taliban Afghan allies would topple the Taliban. Bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Omar would flee across the mountainous border into the wild, tribal areas of northwest Pakistan. From that base, they would organize an insurgency against U.S. and NATO forces and a...
Eight Years and Counting
Brian: Has Barack wavered even one bit about Iraq or Afghanistan? Goodness man! He has been to the right of many Republicans on this one. You can attack him on the domestic front perhaps but his foreign policy has been very conservative, right down the line.
PS. The eight years figure is still completely bogus. Its a completely false metric. How many attacks did we have on American soil before 9/11? One (unless you count domestic terrorism which would give you two). The fact is we can't really count score by looking at a clock. One...