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The Taliban regime of Afghanistan, which had housed Osama bin Laden, was a logical first place to start.
阿富汗的塔利班政權一直窩藏了奧薩馬·本·拉登，理應成為最先開始搜查的地方。
But waging a war in this part of the world, Central Asia, on such short notice, would take unusual cooperation from Afghanistan's neighbors.
但是在這么短的時間內，在中亞這個地區展開戰爭，需要阿富汗鄰國特別的合作。
Surprisingly, President Vladimir Putin of Russia pledged the United States his full assistance in what, he called, the War on Terrorism.
令人驚訝的是，俄羅斯總統弗拉基米爾·普京承諾給予美國在這場他稱之為“反恐戰爭”全部的援助。
Bases in the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan were brokered by Putin, also.
美國在前蘇聯國家哈薩克斯坦和吉爾吉斯斯坦的基地也是有普京促成的。
They were crucial to America's success in the war against Afghanistan's Taliban.
它們在美國對阿富汗塔利班的戰爭中都很關鍵。
The Taliban was knocked out of power, if not destroyed entirely, depriving al-Qaeda of its most effective base.
美國將塔利班政權擊潰，如果沒有完全毀掉的話，是基地組織失去了最有效的基地。
At this point, the United States took the puzzling step of moving against Iraq.
在這時，美國令人費解地展開了對伊拉克的戰爭。
Unlike his father, who had quickly put together an anti-Iraq coalition in 1990, George W. Bush. the 43rd president,
和他的父親不同，小布什，美國的第43任總統，沒有能夠像他父親1990年做的那樣在伊拉克迅速建立起反伊拉克聯盟，
had more trouble finding world support for his belief that Saddam Hussein used weapons of mass destruction and would use them in the future.
他很難使世界相信薩達姆·侯賽因使用大規模殺傷性武器，而且在未來還會使用。
