” ‘Multiple intelligence estimates have warned that al Qaeda is actively planning attacks on the United States homeland from its safe haven in Pakistan,’ [President Barack] Obama said [on March 27, 2009]. ‘And if the Afghan government falls to the Taliban or allows al Qaeda to go unchallenged, that country will again be a base for terrorists who want to kill as many of our people as they possibly can.’ ”
– Bob Woodward, Obama’s Wars, Page 113