The hunt for bin Laden at “Tora Bora [Afghanistan] taught both sides important lessons. The Americans learned, as a top intelligence official said, ‘that it was a bad idea to *outsource* something as important as capturing or killing bin Laden.’ Mutual mistrust kept the Pakistani military and Afghan fighters from embracing the Americans’ search for bin Laden.”
– Peter Finn, Ian Shapira, and Marc Fisher, “The Hunt, Chapter 2: Lessons Learned,” The Washington Post, May 6, 2011