“It says that a review of existing literature, unclassified government records and interviews with central participants “removes any lingering doubts and makes it clear that Osama bin Laden was within our grasp at Tora Bora.”
What a leap from within our grasp,maybe you catch him,maybe you don’t to unquestionably within our grasp. Just a little journalistic license.
The report also does not say Bush is to blame directly but indirectly as its people he chose made the wrong decision.
Whats not addressed in the article of course is at what cost? Going into those mountains and caves would have cost us how many men? Was that(most probably) part of the calculation?
Clinton had more opportunities to get bin Laden after the first World Trade Center bombing, whether it was by having him handed over by the Saudis, or launching cruise missiles at the sites they knew he was at. He passed on all of them. His failures led directly to September 11th.
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