Decimate: reduce by 10%. So AQ still has 90% of its chiefs remaining.
Leon, you’re doing a heckuva job.
You beat me to it.
"Decimate" was something the Roman legions did to their own soldiers as a method of group discipline.
It was supposed to make the remaining 90% stronger and more willing to fight and follow orders.
I think it worked.
Lets define decimation in the style of our leading from behind president.
Obama is busy arming them, (and the MB) for the decimation of Israel and America!
Decimated?
I am quite certain that the Al Queda “farm” system makes the N.Y. Yankees look like little leaguers.