Can anyone name one strategic goal the jihad has achieved?
Their plan was for 9-11 to precipitate our venture into Afghanistan, where they were to defeat us as they believed they had defeated the Russians. We accepted the invitation, but from there nothing has gone as planned for the jihad. They also never envisioned we would go into Iraq.
Did the "Arab street" rise up? No. Did the jihad expel the Great Satan from Iraq? By the time they do, it will be too late, and they will have to kill fellow Muslims and Arabs, and to what end?
Did the jihad succeed in preventing the vote for an interim government? Did it stop the vote for a constitution? Will it stop the Dec 15 vote on a permanent government? They haven't even been able to alter the TIMETABLE for these events.
One could make the case that the only strategic goal which has been achieved is that of enlisting half of America on the side of the jihad, but even that victory is going for naught because the cowboy dude has three more years.
Meanwhile, the appointed head of the Iraqi effort has succeeded only in getting 200,000 Jordanians to march against......TERROR.... the formless foe which supposedly couldn't BE defeated.
Oh yeah, Bush is DECEIVING us, all right.
And it is clear that Zawahiri is listening to the statements made by Democratic cut and runners.
They are just delaying the US victory and costing more lives. Are they so dumb or so full of hate for Bush that they can not see that?
America destroying itself from within? Perhaps not achieved, but well on its way, thanks to Howard Dean and the Defeaticrats.