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Northern Alliance commanders bitterly blame Islamabad--or rather, Washington's determination to keep Musharraf on board--for the fact that they haven't been given the green light. On Saturday U.S. bombs hit targets in Taloqan, far to the north. "The Taliban is kaput," said a soldier up there, with a Soviet-era RPG launcher slung over his soldier. But it's not; the Taliban's front lines outside Kabul still haven't been attacked. In fact, its position there has been reinforced; an extra 500 men and 20 tanks arrived toward the end of last week. The mood among...
...Northern Alliance commanders bitterly blame Islamabad?or rather, Washington's determination to keep Musharraf on board?for the fact that they haven't been given the green light. On Saturday U.S. bombs hit targets in Taloqan, far to the north. "The Taliban is kaput," said a soldier up there, with a Soviet-era RPG launcher slung over his soldier. But it's not; the Taliban's front lines outside Kabul still haven't been attacked. In fact, its position there has been reinforced; an extra 500 men and 20 tanks arrived toward the end of last week. The mood among...
Peacetime in Washington is over. Caught up in a period of national mourning, legislators have spent the last several weeks in a state of self-imposed silence, reluctant to cast blame for or even ask many questions about the September 11th attacks...
...current, very unfamiliar situation, there?s little doubt about whether to proceed with an investigation. Do we need to investigate our colossal intelligence failures that led to September 11th? Of course we do, But this shouldn?t be just a blame rain dance, where the Beltway types just move the same problems from one box into another...
...Lawmakers will all want what I call investigative photo?ops. Everyone will talk about wanting to clean this up, but the truth that no one should forget is that Congress shares a lot of the blame for the intelligence community?s lapses. It was Congress, after all, that imposed all sorts of legal restrictions that made investigations much more difficult. And it was Congress, of course, that cut the budget for intelligence communities...