Operation Enduring Freedom: Counting Minuses

Updated on: 7 February 2024 7:11 pm

The Benchmarks
1.	Destruction of all known Al Qaeda centres	Achieved
2.	Getting Osama or at least some of his followers	NO
3.	Getting a new government before the onset of winter	NO
4.	Getting the Taliban out of Mazar-e-Sharif as a first step and then out of Kabul, Kandahar and Jalalabad	NO
5.	Securing significant defections and provoking rebellion against the Taliban	NO
6.	Making headway in propaganda war in Islamic world through broadcasts and stories of food supplies to Afghanistan	NO
7.	Winning the Islamic world over through a charity for Afghan children launched by Bush	NO
8.	Luring Taliban and Al Qaeda men into betraying Osama with the bait of big bounty money	NO
9.	Building a strong world alliance politically and militarily against Osama and Taliban (many countries, even Nato members like Germany, are reluctant to go along with the bombing)	NO
10.	Forcing Al Qaeda on the defensive, curtailing movement and communications in Afghanistan	Achieved