What??? Maybe in 1980, but not after his terrorist attacks
...after all, he was "our" guy, bought and paid for by your tax dollars at work.
Osama didn't need our money, his family keeps him plenty wealthy. We just used him to stymie the Soviets.
Our government sent the Taliban 40 million bucks (our bucks) in March for humanitarian aid.
Tell me, how much of that was cash, and how much was food and medical supplies? And that aid was a ridiculous attempt to persuade them to discontinue their drug trade, NOT to support future terrorist acts against us.
If you think we couldn't have grabbed OBL anytime before 9/11, you need a little more KoolAid.
The clinton administration didn't have the balls to do it, coupled with the fact that we stopped paying "unsavory characters" for information needed to pin down his whereabouts.
We even listened in on his phone calls to his Mom.
Unless we were hovering above, ready to swoop down a grab him while he was on the "mobil" phone. Listening to phone calls with mommy would be of no help at all.
Gumption, quit believing everything you hear on the networks and in the major media, or from the mouths of politicians, and read a little more for yourself.
What do you read, the Taliban Tribune?