How Dangerous are the Taliban to the US?

Foreign Affairs article and response both of which are well worth reading - if you are rethinking our involvement in Afghanistan.

clipped from www.foreignaffairs.com The very notion that al Qaeda needs a secure geographic base to carry out its terrorist operations, moreover, is questionable. After all, the operational base for 9/11 was in Hamburg, Germany. Conspiracies involving small numbers of people require communication, money, and planning -- but not a major protected base camp.