Boo Radley
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Re: Afghans vent fury over Koran burning, U.S. apologizes
I know, you hold that opinion, but you may well be wrong. With the right voice, carrot and stick, he may well have been given to a thrid party. Or we could have gone in on 9/12 and just gotten him and left. Again, the point is we did the mostexpensive and reckless option.
And him fleeing Afghanistan, forced or not, doesn't change anything I said. The fact is it took us nearly a decade, and our invasion did not accomplish the job. Nor does crushing the leadership in Afghanistan mean a thing at all.
I find part of what you quote as funny. A group that started out decenteralixed is now decentralized. Now that's progress. But let me ask, can you show meassurable decrease in terrorism?
Once again the offer to hand him over to a third nation was disingenuous which is proven conclusively by the fact that their demand was that we provide evidence of Bin Laden's guilt and that evidence had long been provided and they still refused to hand him over.
Because he was forced to flee Afghanistan.
The Taliban were co-conspirators in the 9-11 attacks I consider them as guilty as AQ which was part and parcel to the Taliban government and military.
We crushed the central leadership in Afghanistan and forced them to flee into the borderlands.
The NIST report stated that they would be emboldened to continue their Jihad elsewhere should the U.S. fail in Iraq but would cause the inverse should the opposite occur, and the U.S. succeeded in Iraq.
The Iraq conflict has become the “cause celebre” for jihadists, breeding a deep resentment of US involvement in the Muslim world and cultivating supporters for the global jihadist movement. Should jihadists leaving Iraq perceive themselves to have failed we judge fewer fighters will be inspired to carry on the fight.
We assess that the Iraq jihad is shaping a new generation of terrorist leaders and operatives; perceived jihadist success there would inspire more fighters to continue the struggle elsewhere.
United States-led counterterrorism efforts have seriously damaged the leadership of al-Qa’ida and disrupted it’s operations.
We assess that the global jihadist movement is decentralized, lacks a coherent global strategy, and is becoming more diffuse.
I know, you hold that opinion, but you may well be wrong. With the right voice, carrot and stick, he may well have been given to a thrid party. Or we could have gone in on 9/12 and just gotten him and left. Again, the point is we did the mostexpensive and reckless option.
And him fleeing Afghanistan, forced or not, doesn't change anything I said. The fact is it took us nearly a decade, and our invasion did not accomplish the job. Nor does crushing the leadership in Afghanistan mean a thing at all.
I find part of what you quote as funny. A group that started out decenteralixed is now decentralized. Now that's progress. But let me ask, can you show meassurable decrease in terrorism?