OpEdNews.com: What We've Lost Since Tora Bora

October 6, 2007

Six years ago, on October 7, 2001, the United States launched Operation Enduring Freedom. Over the next 78 days, the U.S., working with Afghan allies and bolstered by a coalition of support from around the world, drove the Taliban from power and destroyed al Qaeda’s infrastructure in that country. But even as a new Afghan interim government was being inaugurated in Kabul that December, Osama bin Laden and several of his key lieutenants were completing their escape from Tora Bora to safe refuge across the border in Pakistan. Since that point, the United States, despite some sporadic successes, has been gradually losing ground in the “war on terror.”