Posted on 08/22/2006 2:01:55 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Every time she opened her mouth reporting on the Balkans, she made sure her teeth weren't showing!
That goes back to the story of the young kid whose mother said, "I can always tell when you are lying by your teeth," so the kid answered by pursing his lips so that his mother wouldn't see his teeth.
CNN's Little Miss Amanpour was the one who reported every hour on the hour showing the video of the two Muslim babies on a bus that had been killed by a Serb sniper - except for the fact that these were not Muslim babies killed by a Serbian sniper, they were Serbian babies killed by a Muslim sniper. A Serbian Orthodox priest officiated at the funeral of the Serbian babies but for American consumption, the Serbian Orthodox priest had been cropped from the video.
This just wasn't yellow journalism. It was beyond the pale!
And Clintoon couldn't get him when he had the goon dropped into his proverbial lap.......
Apparently, Bin Ladin finally wants to outdo Merck & Co.
You are correct about her colors. She is certainly no friend to America. Quite the opposite in fact; I would call her an outright enemy to this country.
I think that it is arguable that the 6 - 8 hundred rangers the "Covert CIA Guy," (another red flag) wanted would have been a waste of manpower.
I still believe the bastard was dead meat in that bombing of the Afghanistan cave back in December 2001. It's been "Weekend at Bernie's" ever since.
They trot out his corpse everyonce in awhile to please liberals and other enemies of America.
Al-Queda Rose would be devestated if she found out Bernie was actually dead...
It may sound odd, but Afghanistan requires large elements to stop people fleeing through the hills. Besides where better to use that manpower, than pursuing al-Qa'ida senior leadership?
As to the "covert CIA guy", we absolutely did have a CIA paramilitary team and a large number of Afghan militants on our side in that encounter, but, as the saying goes, you can't buy an Afghan, but you can rent him. If we had a battalion of Rangers there instead of that brigade of Afgan militia, bin Laden and Zawahiri would be dead by now.
One can look at any war and point at missed opportunities and blown chances, though. That said, we've had a pattern of overcautious behavior from the top brass that's minimized casualties short term, but made very poor strategic sense. I think that is a fair criticism that will be considered a hallmark of both Afghanistan and Iraq.
For all we know, we could have had 2,000 Rangers in blocking positions, needing another 5,000 to completely seal off the escape route. The extra 6 - 8 hundred would have been meaningless.
The terrain of Afghanistan makes it very easy to swallow large formations, so you have a point about the numbers. However, we never needed those numbers because we already had them. We just needed reliable numbers, not Afghans who could be bought off by al-Qa'ida money men.
A battalion of Rangers dispersed into platoon or squad sized elements and co-located with the large Afghan militia forces would have put U.S. eyes all over the valley. Maybe not enough to prevent a breakout, but enough to say which way they went and to conduct pursuit.
As it was, our Afghan allies pretty much shrugged and said, "They got away". And they did.
At least give me the point about the possibly imaginary covert CIA guy.
As far as that, his name is Gary Berntsen, and he wrote a book called "Jawbreaker", which goes into great detail about the events at Tora Bora. (Or at least tried to, as the CIA Publication Police heavily edited it for him.)
lol! Sorry, wasn't trying to deny your last point, I just happen to be very familiar with this subject.
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