"What difference does it make?"
Posted on 08/13/2013 7:13:55 AM PDT by nuconvert
(excerpt)
... our failure to appreciate that while al Qaeda central has been badly weakened by U.S. counterterrorism efforts, the group was never close to being extinguished. It adapted. It gave greater power to semi-independent affiliates, such as al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP, and to more loosely connected groups, like Boko Haram in Nigeria.
The West made the mistake of failing to effectively tackle these affiliates and their propaganda, dismissing them as local problems irrelevant to the war against al Qaeda. While groups like AQAP and Boko Haram initially did focus their violence locally, terrorists who endorse Osama bin Laden's jihadist message inevitably move on to the global war against the West.
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Turning the security apparatus against our own citizens was a significant contribution also.
Short answer: Barack Obama
Only in the Democrat’s imagination has al Quida gone anywhere
Exactly. US funding and arming of al Queada.
I smell a coming Clinton-style weasel-words evasion from Team Obama & Big Media on this -
.... they’ll say, well, AL-QUAEDA itself is on the run, like Obama said last fall during the debates, but it’s just the AFFILIATE GROUPS that are stronger now ...
(CNN, you’ve got your talking points)
.... like the terror is any different ...
"What difference does it make?"
WE weren't complacent, WE weren't lazy, WE didn't make mistakes ...
YOU f******DID !!!
This last year has seen a lot of editorials and commentaries about what we've done wrong.
Americans .... AMERICANS .. whom KNOW their identity .. did everything in our power to get YOU .. journalists and other whores .. to listen and wake up and inform the people who are lazy, about the truth.
NOW you try to lessen the guilt by claiming, oops .. we just couldn't see clearly.
I saw Bill Clinton a mile away because he was of my generation and I have enough discernment to know a phoney when I see one.
I saw zero from jump street as a hustling n***** because, though white .. I've been there.
I am SO pissed off with this style of writing
“did everything in our power to get YOU .. journalists and other whores .. to listen and wake up and inform the people who are lazy, about the truth.”
Don’t condemn everyone - many tried to get the truth out but were prevented or muzzled by the MSM.
BTW - this writer wrote an entire book on this subject - The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War against al-Qaeda
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/black-banners-ali-h-soufan/1100403393?ean=9780393079425
It’s not his fault that you & others aren’t familiar with it
Detroit Dead...Al-Qaeda Alive.
It was that bomb maker they acquired in that trade with the Palestinian Authority for two propagandists and a Spiritual Leader to be named later. That’s what did it.
As long as wealthy Arabs send funding to al Qaeda, there will be an unending supply of operations people willing to spend it on terrorism. If you want to stop it, focus on funding sources.
obama arms his muzzie friends. then gives them gifts like stevens and extortion 17. emboldens them. makes them even bigger targets by putting open pervert homosexuals in the ranks.
A map of the Sahel region showing where Al Qaeda operates (AFP/Graphic)
Iran Deploys Troops, Ballistic Missiles To Eritrea
Thanks nuconvert.
He’s the former FBI agent who claimed harsh interrogation techniques didn’t work on behalf of the Pelosi-Kerry crowd.
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