Do you think Bin Laden and his troops were able to regroup because Bush said he didn't spend much time on him?

Answer 1

Yes. Besides Bin Laden is a convenient excuse for Bushco to continue to rule the United States as a virtual dictatorship.

"Only I can protect you from the terrorists"

Answer 2

While it seems that President Bush forgot Osama Bin Laden himself, there is a lot going on in Afghanistan. Those mountains in Afghanistan are some of the most difficult for people to find others -and Bin Laden knows them well. Pursuing Bin Laden was not "back burner-ed," but instead has been going on since 9/11.

A brilliant professor of mountains, whose military service as a youth was to walk the mountains of Afghanistan was asked to write a paper (book size) on those mountains for President Bush. That professor made it clear to his mountains class at that time, that finding Bin Laden would be extremely difficult, and would be a very long-term project. Maybe that convinced Bush to develop another "project" to distract Bin Laden, and weaken his monetary foundation, from the real objective. At least, that's what I suspect may have happened. All presidents have access to more secret information that we can even guess at.

Answer 3

To be honest with you, I don't think that at this stage in the game....Bin Laden probably couldn't give a crap one way or another as to what the President says. I'm sure that the troops would have regrouped no matter how much "attention" Bush paid to them. It's only a matter of time before we're going to have to deal with this issue in our own backyards again, and I just hope to God that our government has a plan of action to keep us safe.

Answer 4

Bin Laden's dead. There's no way that megalomaniacal egotistical piece of sh*t would have stayed off the TV this long if he were still around. That's not to say his 'troops' are not a problem though. Bush blew it. We should have stayed with the Afghan effort 100% until we had destroyed Al Qaeda and demonstrated our good will and morality by doing more to rebuild the Afghan country. Then everybody would respect us and we could have gotten a real coalition to deal with Hussein.

Answer 5

Bin Laden probably works for Bush....LoL

It's obvious Bush doesn't care a fig about the USA or it's citizens. He only cares about what he wants. The rest of us are simply disposable.

Answer 6

I heard a news story on public radio station the other day that said the Taliban is larger and more powerful today then before 9/11

... and mostly due to the anger we have created around the world by our actions, and the fact that our army is in Iraq and not Afganistan

Answer 7

Definitely. Bush himself admitted that he didn't think much about bin Laden.

Seriously, I suspect Bush and his cabinet were high-fiving themselves after the towers fell on 9/11. They saw this as a great financial and political opportunity and went for it.

Answer 8

Oh, so Bin Laden exists now? I thought Bush made him up to control us with fear.

Answer 9

Bin Laden and his "troops"?

Al qaeda regained strength because we are stuck in a "war" that has nothing to do with 9-11 or those terrorists. 12 billion dollars a month to pay for that occupation doesn't pay for catching terrorists...generally.

Answer 10

The US military and other agencies have teams devoted round-the-clock to Bin Laden and other terror cells. The President receives a briefing on a daily basis of their activity and recommendations. That is the limit of his personal involvement in the issue in most cases. Unlike Carter for example, Bush does not spend every second of every day consumed by a single issue to the point of obsession. Just because the media focuses so much attention on an issue or ignores an issue does not mean that those issues have become more or less important to the Federal government.

There are many reasons to account for their ability to regroup. Among them is the heavy hand of politics and judicial activism in the anti-Terror war. By handcuffing the agencies charged with surveillance and prosecution of the War, the enemy is afforded an opportunity to solidify and/or reconstruct its network. Why do you think the Viet Cong and NVA were able to remain so strong during the Vietnam War? US politicians were substituting politics for sound military strategy. You would not allow your military to cut the enemy’s supply lines or attack known command and control centres. Instead you foolishly forced your military to concentrate its force on the low-level combatants who routinely hid among the civilian population thereby guaranteeing an endless supply of innocent victims for the anti-War crowd and Soviet propagandists.