Taliban

...degenerated into a terrorizing theocracy. But soon the two monsters the United States and its allies had created, Saddam Hussein and the Taliban, came back to haunt their creators. Saddam Hussein invaded and occupied Kuwait soon...

In this article: United States, Iran, Hamid Dabashi, Ayatollah Khomeini, Saddam Hussein, Tehran, Islamic, Iran-Iraq War, Iran: A People Interrupted, and New York City

...The Daily Beast! Newscom In removing the Taliban and Saddam, the Bush administration effectively elevated Iran to regional superpower-and left Sunnis worried that Iraq would become an Iranian colony. But Gary Sick sees a different...

In this article: Iran, Gary Sick, Iraq, Middle East, United States, U.S. Navy, Persian Gulf, Gerald Ford, and Saddam Hussein

...be the fate of Osama bin Laden and his band of monsters -- and the sooner the better. The Taliban may well take over Afghanistan -- a calamity for women and girls, among others -- but not really more morally dismal than the United States...

In this article: Afghanistan, Britain, Middle East, David Fromkin, Iraq, United States, Stanley McChrystal, and World War I

...protect ourselves from imminent terrorist attacks. The Taliban are often nasty people, but, in themselves, no more constitute a direct threat to us or our allies than did Saddam Hussein. It is heartbreaking to think of what we could do...

In this article: Saddam Hussein, Afghanistan, and US

...take their time planting it and put it in (the ground) well. " Improvised explosive devices in southern Afghanistan are the predominant weapon of the extremist Taliban. In Iraq, the explosive charges were mainly conventional ordnance --...

In this article: Nawa, Afghanistan, Afghanistan, 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, and Improvised explosive devices

...Wali Karzai. A Soldier Writes In a five-part series David Rohde recounts his experiences in the fall of 2008, when he and two Afghan colleagues were kidnapped by the Taliban while on a reporting trip. Readers in Iraq are eager to read a...

In this article: C.I.A., Afghanistan, Islam, Hamid Karzai, and David Rohde

...daily victims of Saddam Hussein's oppression. " The younger Bush had earlier noted that Americans "had no quarrel with the people of Afghanistan," only with al-Qaeda and their Taliban supporters. He even employed this phrase in his final...

In this article: Saddam Hussein, United States, Woodrow Wilson, Adolf Hitler, George W. Bush, Dalai Lama, Germany, and George H.W. Bush

...Center and the Pentagon. With the backing of Congress, Bush quickly invaded Afghanistan and ousted the Taliban, and in spring of 2003 launched a U.S.-led invasion of Iraq intent on removing Saddam Hussein from power. After awarding the 2002...

In this article: Barack Obama, United Nations, Woodrow Wilson, George W. Bush, United States, Michael Steele, Jimmy Carter, and House Foreign Affairs Committee