Central Intelligence Agency Quotes
A Taliban collapse could be rapid, with the enemy shrinking to a small number of hard-core Mullah Omar supporters in the early days or weeks of a military campaign.
The military attack on the Taliban was a great success and the regime was ousted very rapidly. Once the regime was displaced, however, the military was faced with an extremely decentralized country with sporadic resistance from Taliban sympathizers and with the tough task of rebuilding the dilapidated country.
Gary, CIA team leader operating in liaison with the Northern Alliance during the U.S. attack on the Taliban regime, Secret message to the Directorate of Operations, CIA, October 1, 2001
Sourced by: Eigen's Political and Historical Quotations
The government of Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai was totally corrupt and preyed on the Afghan people. See {629318}. The United States had committed to the turnover at the end of 2013 the responsibility for maintaining the security of Afghanistan to the Afghan military and police forces who were being trained by the Americans.
The Pakistani Government at the time and for most of the history of that nation did not have much control over the military, and regardless of what agreements the civilian government might have made, the military did not wanted to curry favor with as many Islamic radical terrorist groups as possible even though they even killed Muslims of Pakistan. They would not send the military into Northern Pakistan (Waziristan) to eliminate the Taliban sanctuaries or offend their tribal "hosts" as they were so paranoid about India that they wanted the terrorists as allies.
The Security Counsel was meeting it the Situation room at the White House
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the United States federal government, tasked with gathering, processing and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT). As one of the principal members of the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC), the CIA reports to the Director of National Intelligence and is primarily focused on providing intelligence for the President and Cabinet. Unlike the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which is a domestic security service, CIA has no law enforcement function and is mainly focused on overseas intelligence gathering, with only limited domestic collection.
