By failing to secure and rebuild the country after the invasion, he created a terrorist haven where none had been before.
For the president, the top priority of reconstruction is to ensure that Afghanistan never again becomes a terrorist haven.
Rather, he suggested that the invasion of Iraq had created a terrorist haven where one did not previously exist.
News reports described Paterson as a terrorist haven.
If it's a terrorist haven, then they'll have plenty of places to hide.
After the Marines took Ubaydi, they didn't have the troops to hold it, and it again became a terrorist safe haven.
We need to invest to ensure we are never a terrorist transit point or a terrorist haven.
Now, essentially ignored, it has become a Taliban-like state of Islamic extremism, a terrorist safe haven.
The government, deeply sensitive about Yemen's reputation as a terrorist haven, does what it can to limit risks.
Americans can't get out, or they risk turning the country into a terrorist haven that will make the old Afghanistan look like Cipriani's.