• He was within grasp in 2001, but rein­force­ments weren’t sent. First off, let’s state the obvi­ous: We’d still have ter­ror­ism trou­bles if Bin Laden were cap­tured – though they might be less focused. How­ever, a Sen­ate report says that the U.S. was close to catch­ing him in Afghanistan, only to drop the ball by lean­ing on air strikes instead of putting peo­ple on the ground. Don­ald Rums­feld is specif­i­cally blamed for his lack of action. source

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