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Watch Out for Al Qeada (Good Read! And in the L.A.Times no less...)
Los Angeles Times ^
| February 15, 2009
| Marc A. Thiessen
Posted on 02/15/2009 5:51:30 AM PST by kellynla
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To: kellynla
The lack of another catastrophic attack on the United States, combined with the massive defeat terrorists have suffered in Iraq, sends a message to the Muslim world that Al Qaeda is losing its war with America. The terrorists need to pull off something spectacular to prove that they are still a force and a threat.
The terrorists don't need to pull off any spectacular attacks against the U.S.; not here nor abroad.
Without firing a single shot or setting off any bomb in the U.S., the terrorists received the biggest win ever with the election of Obama in November. Likewise, with democrats in control of both houses of congress, Al-Qaeda doesn't need to worry about the U.S. coming after them anytime soon.
With a weakened economy and with Obama and the democrats promising to cut Pentagon spending, our military won't have the capacity to strike back at the terrorists after an attack on U.S. interests abroad, or even on our land.
And, the terrorists aren't the only enemy that's being uplifted by the Obama victory and our weakened economy. Iran and Russia and Chavez, for example, are coming after us with renewed vigor and stronger commitments.
With Obama and democrats in control, our responses to any aggression by the terrorists and other enemies will be to pull back and not cause our enemies to grow angrier. We, after all, don't want to "create more enemies" like we did after the 9/11 attacks.
Besides, Obama and the democrats don't want any kind of incident to turn their attention away from their attempts to finally "socialize" the entire economy and government. First things first.
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posted on
02/15/2009 7:40:21 AM PST
by
adorno
To: kellynla
The terrorists' ambitions are shaped by their experience fighting the Soviet Union in Afghanistan.
huh ? Soviets were in Afghanistan 78-89. those are some old terrorists.
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posted on
02/15/2009 7:44:38 AM PST
by
stylin19a
(Obama - the ethical exception asterisk administration)
To: kellynla
“All this means that now is no time for President Obama to begin dismantling the institutions President Bush put in place to keep America safe.”
It's a little too late for the left to start calling for Obama to leave Bush's evil protections in place. I think they know that we are going to get hit without those protections and Obama will get the blame for dismantling those protections and Bush will get a lot of overdue credit. The people will also see that all the media rants about Bush's war on terror policies were way off base and wrongheaded.
It may take a terrorist strike or two against us to turn the people against the democrats, and the democrats are helping that happen by undoing Bush's terrorist policies. Let's face it, the democrat foreign policy is going to get us all killed eventually.
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posted on
02/15/2009 7:46:03 AM PST
by
HwyChile
To: ryan71
They didnt think AQ was such a threat a couple months ago. Wonder why?That is odd. I wonder what happened in the last 2-3 months.......
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posted on
02/15/2009 7:47:06 AM PST
by
expatpat
To: ryan71
Because they are laying the groundwork for when Hussein takes away freedoms in the name of “national security”. He is going to do all the things of which they accused President Bush, and more.
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posted on
02/15/2009 8:34:13 AM PST
by
mrsmel
(Put the Gitmo terrorists near Capitol Hill.)
To: kellynla
Our Treasury Department is doing a far better job of destroying the economic infrastructure of the United States than al-Qaeda could ever hope to do.
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posted on
02/15/2009 8:45:18 AM PST
by
Deo volente
(High Noon, January 20, 2009: Our long national nightmare begins.)
To: kellynla
"Bin Laden believes that Al Qaeda can bring about the economic collapse of the United States -- and to achieve this goal, he has ....Gotten his own candidate elected.
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posted on
02/15/2009 8:50:41 AM PST
by
Gorzaloon
(Roark, Architect.)
To: kellynla
This is a set up to dodge the responsibility of the US Government and their over commitment of treasury funds and the failure of a fiat system that was never ratified.
The Treasury was established with the 16th ammendment which failed ratification of 2/3 by two (2) states. That's right the 16th amendment is as much a fraud as Obama.
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posted on
02/15/2009 9:01:54 AM PST
by
Vendome
To: mewzilla
“All the Islamists will need to do is sit back and watch while we implode. They wont have to lift a finger. Best part for them is that we will have done it to ourselves.”
Reluctantly, I have to agree.
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posted on
02/15/2009 11:49:08 AM PST
by
Attention Surplus Disorder
(Mr. Bernanke, have you started working on your book about the second GREATER depression?")
To: kellynla
Will people stop being so incredulous when the L.A. Times prints a good solid story? They do this regularly. Yes, I know, in terms of local California politics they are reliably in the tank for the Dhimmicrats. But from being the only U.S. media outlet to debunk the breathless Clinton administration claims of ‘genocide’ in Kosovo while the air campaign was going on (Agence France Press was the only other major media outlet to do so), to the present story, I can’t recall how many time FReepers have posted incredulity that the L.A. Times got something right.
No other major metro daily gets that reaction so often here. I can’t recall any “OMG! the NY Times, or Chicago Tribune, or Boston Globe or (fill in any major paper other than the L.A. Times)” comments, but there have been lots for the L.A. Times.
I think they must have the last editorial staff who actually value objective reporting and diversity of opinion. They may be almost all leftists to a man, but for that continued commitment to actual journalism, the L.A. Times deserves kudos.
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posted on
02/15/2009 1:11:26 PM PST
by
The_Reader_David
(And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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