President Bush, Nov. 24, 2003:
“Working with a fine coalition, our military went to Afghanistan, destroyed the training camps of al Qaeda, and put the Taliban out of business forever…(Applause.)”
National Security advisor Stephen Hadley, June 29, 2005:
“[T]he Taliban is making ‘one last stand’,” ThinkProgress quotes Hadley saying as Taliban violence spikes in Afghanistan. Here’s Hadley on PBS’s NewsHour last night:
[W]hat we know and what we believe is that the Taliban forces in Afghanistan were really set back by the presidential election … and are trying to regroup and trying to stay relevant and trying to derail the elections … scheduled for September. [R]egrettably, we’re going to probably see continuation of violence as they try and make one last stand to try and derail the progress of democracy there.
Thanks to JPol for the Bush quote.
that presidential elections can really set back a country, but I don’t think Afghanistan is a good example of that. The US is a much better example.
And I was gonna say that once this guy hit me with a presidential election and I was black and blue for weeks. Yours is funnier.
I think we are seeing another last throe of the Taliban –as I’m sure you are aware, last throes can continue for six, eight, ten, twelve years. And they can be very violent.
The press needs to start jumping on comments like these, especially when they’re so glaringly obvious. “Mr. Hadley, two years ago President Bush declared the Taliban ‘out of business.’ Now you’re saying that they are making one last stand in Afghanistan. Is there any reason to believe your current assessment is any more accurate than the previous one?”
is either the previous Afghan or the final Afghan
knit one, Pearle two…
I thought everyone knew, the Taliban are Invincible.
Pax