[APBaer]

"The intensified bombing was apparently in response to criticism from congressmen that America was not making enough use of its military clout"

I think this is so, and it brings up the question:
If Congressmen had not complained how little would the DOD be doing?
What are we paying these guys to do, if not to break things and kill people?

[okie01]

The intensified bombing was apparently in response to criticism from congressmen that America was not making enough use of its military clout

"I think this is so, and it brings up the question:"

Monday Morning Quarterbacking by Congressmen or whining by the press almost certainly had nothing to do with it. It comes under the heading of logical next step in a progression designed to collapse the Taliban on itself, with a little help from the Afghans themselves.

Do you honestly believe that Rumsfeld, Bush and Cheney give a damn what John McCain, Bill Kristol or Chris Shays might, or might not, think? That is, if they think at all...