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WASHINGTON -- Eight years ago this week, just 25 days after the vicious attacks of 9/11, the U.S. struck back at the Taliban and al-Qaida in Afghanistan. Thirty-three days later, U.S.-supported Northern Alliance troops were in Kabul, and the remnants of al-Qaida and its Taliban hosts were in retreat to Kandahar and mountain redoubts along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. All of this was preceded by intense diplomacy and a virtually nonstop publicly aired series of presidential announcements, news conferences, speeches, debates and discussions at the White House, from the badly damaged Pentagon, in congressional hearings -- even at the United Nations....
Quiet, Please
My son, my soldier told me about similar hair raising battles at his COP when he was on leave just a month ago. He was lucky that tragedy did not befall him those times. But as you know, luck doesn't last forever. We must learn from our mistakes and our tragedies. Sadly, we seem to learn nothing since the Keating...