Beyond Osama: The Pentagon’s Battle With Powell Heats Up - 'Perle and Wolfowitz are absolutists, and they're stupid' - 9/11

Wed, 21 Apr 2021 16:22:43 GMT

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The simmering conflict within the Bush administration over how to prosecute the next phase of the war on terrorism suddenly flared up last week as the Taliban fled Kabul. Where to go next and how big it should be is what's being argued right now—and Baghdad is what's being debated at the moment, said a senior Pentagon official.