Al Qaeda on the Ropes

AQ is losing the war on terror, and they know it. Now if only the defeatists would admit it



Al Qaeda at 20 Dead or Alive?

By Peter Bergen
Sunday, August 17, 2008; Page B01

Two decades after al-Qaeda was founded in the Pakistani border city of Peshawar by Osama bin Laden and a handful of veterans of the war against the Soviets in Afghanistan, the group is more famous and feared than ever. But its grand project -- to transform the Muslim world into a militant Islamist caliphate -- has been, by any measure, a resounding failure.

In large part, that's because Osama bin Laden's strategy for arriving at this Promised Land is a fantasy. Al-Qaeda's leader prides himself on being a big-think strategist, but for all his brains, leadership skills and charisma, he has fastened on an overall strategy that is self-defeating.

Bin Laden's main goal is to bring about regime change in the Middle East and to replace the governments in Cairo and Riyadh with Taliban-style theocracies. He believes that the way to accomplish this is to attack the "far enemy" (the United States), then watch as the supposedly impious, U.S.-backed Muslim regimes he calls the "near enemy" crumble.

This might have worked if the United States had turned out to be a paper tiger that could sustain only a few blows from al-Qaeda. But it didn't. Bin Laden's analysis showed no understanding of the vital interests -- oil, Israel and regional stability -- that undergird U.S. engagement in the Middle East, let alone the intensity of American outrage that would follow the first direct attack on the continental United States since the British burned the White House in 1814.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/15/AR2008081502981.html

If AQ was such a bad ass organization anymore I think we would have seen an attack somewhere. But they haven't been able to do anyting for a couple of years and nothing in the US since 2001. They've also got their asses handed to them in Iraq, which they themselves said was the most important battleground. All you get now is the occassional tape breathing threats. Who's the paper tiger now???

Obama has the same policy os kerry had when it comes to fighting the war on terror

As always, your bullshit is ridiculous. AQ is still around, and they are as strong as ever. The Bushies (and their McTraitor compatriots) are the ones that are on the ropes. For sacrificing American lives indiscriminately.

gabosaurus wrote:As always, your bullshit is ridiculous. AQ is still around, and they are as strong as ever. The Bushies (and their McTraitor compatriots) are the ones that are on the ropes. For sacrificing American lives indiscriminately.

AQ is around. they give up on Iraq and now their trying to blow OPEC's oil well. say how much do you pay in mexifornia anyway?????