Posted on 09/14/2010 4:44:35 PM PDT by Kaslin
Defense: Some are now saying al-Qaida is weak and we overreacted after 9/11. Al-Qaida is weak because of our reaction and a tool that shows that America and its technology is alive and well.
The latest chapter in the mainstream media's revisionist history of the war on terror is the recent claim by Newsweek's Fareed Zakaria that al-Qaida was and "is simply not that deadly a threat," and that after a spectacular success on 9/11 is reduced to recruiting a radicalized young man over the Internet and teaching "him to stuff his underwear with explosives."
In saying we've "overreacted," Zakaria trivializes both the threat and our success. Despite his rhetorical flourish, that man with a bomb in his undies very nearly brought down a civilian airliner over a major American city. If al-Qaida has not duplicated 9/11, it has not been for lack of trying.
No, Mr. Zakaria, we did not overreact to a weak al-Qaida. We made it weak. As President Reagan might say, we are simply winning and they are losing in large part because of a new type of aircraft being built in Southern California, the unmanned drone. There, the Predator and Reaper drones that have decimated al-Qaida's leadership are made by General Atomic Aeronautical Systems in one of the few boom areas of the defense industry.
Conceived before 9/11 as a means of fighting forest fires with some use as a military reconnaissance aircraft, the drone industry has received $20 billion in Pentagon funding since 2001 and billions more from Congress and the CIA. The industry employs some 10,000 people and helps keep the rest of us alive. The Pentagon is spending more than $4 billion this year buying and operating drones, more than 7,000 of which are deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan
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As long as islam exists the war will continue. Their goal is the destruction of western civilization. PERIOD...
I liked this passage from the article:
The missiles have been so accurate and timely — some finding high-value targets as they snoozed in their beds — that al-Qaida reportedly suspects internal security breaches and is hunting down its own people.
President Bush described this early in the GWOT, that we'll be successful when we get the enemy to start turning against itself.
If we could only get ALL the young muzzie males to stuff just a wee bit of explosive into their underwear, this problem could solve itself within a generation...
In fact, we should make this form of terrorism mandatory; I’d gladly volunteer to help enforce it, substituting my .45 ACP where explosives were in short supply.
Many sensible people would consider this a deadly threat. There is a list of over 3,000 names of people who are no longer able to form an opinion on that question, including David Brandhorst and Christine Hanson, both age 3; and Juliana Valentine McCourt, age 4.
>> As long as islam exists the war will continue. Their goal is the destruction of western civilization. PERIOD...
I agree. Islam is a war plan.
You think we are save from radical Islam? Sorry but you are a fool. You think just because “we” killed some talibans in Afghanistan and some al kaida members in pakistan that we are now save? I would laught if it wouldn´t be this depressing. As long as radical Islam exists there will be no peace! This is a fact. (not that i can do anything about it but it´s still a fact. For example i HAVE KILLED Taliban + Little muslim kids in africa... Did i change anything? i Guess not! For example in afghanistan “we” defend the towel heads from the street agains the towel heads from the hills. At the end they are all the same. They want power! Thats all.
No need to buy all that ammo or explosives when Honey Badgers will gladly do the job for free.
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