“…journalist James Fallows argued in The Atlantic [in October 2004] that the coalition in Afghanistan never really had the opportunity to show whether it could provide order in the country. ‘The campaign in Afghanistan was warped and limited from the start,’ he writes, ‘by a pre-existing desire to save troops for Iraq.’ ” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]
– Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Bin Laden’s Legacy, Page 106