This is exactly what I'm talking about. You don't know how to interpret these reports...
"military force has not undermined al Qa'ida."
Wasn't our goal to undermine al Qa'ida?
This is a general statement and meant to portray Al-Queda a still a threat. They have been undermined since 9/11. They have met with failure over and over and over again. They did not get Iraq. They are constantly beig refused entry onto planes. The few attacks they have gotten in are inevitable. Dozens of attempts are surely going to produce one success sooner or later. This report is "safe."
Military force has not obliterated Al-Quada from the face of the earth. It's not going to and it never was. Engaging them in the Phillipines, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Chad, and Indonesia is supposed to take how long? Is there a time limit? There are locations where they have yet to be engaged at all. And as long as they have a never ending recruitment pool, which is the uneducated Middle East, they will persist to exist and be slaughtered as they appear. And home grown terrorists in London, Germany, and France is a local problem for them to solve. Our problem is the Middle East and as long as oppression and a complete lack of general eduaction without the religious under and over tones thrown in, we will continue to encounter the Al-Quedas.
"As of 2008, al Qa'ida has remained a strong and competent organization. Its goal is intact: to establish a pan-Islamic caliphate in the Middle East by uniting Muslims to fight infidels and overthrow West-friendly regimes. "
Wasn't our goal to make al Qa'ida less strong and less competent?
It's goal remains intact therefore we are losing? How dare they continue to believe in their God and persist to meet him in a blast of glory. Al-Queda is positioned all over the world and most of their organization is next generation wannabes anymore. Once again, the fact that they continue to exist and have dreams of victory does not equate to us "losing."
"It continues to employ terrorism and has been involved in more terrorist attacks around the world in the years since September 11, 2001, than in prior years, though engaging in no successful attacks of a comparable magnitude to the attacks on New York and Washington."
Wasn't our goal to decrease terrorism world wide rather than to increase it?
Yeah...I just don't see the words "failure" or "losing" anywhere in the report.
How many terrorist attacks has Al-Queda been responsible for since 9/11 and how many wannabes merely attributed their efforts to Al-Queda's rhetorics after the fact? A couple embassies, an Air Force barracks, a Naval ship, Black Hawk Down....5 or 6 attacks prior to 9/11. How many since? Are they counting the terrorist activity inside Iraq..a war zone? Maybe a couple more, of which they didn't even plan?
"Our" goal is towards our own security and primarily focused on Al-Queda and their agents. The rest of the world will just benefit as they always do in the end. This was always a generational fight. No where should anybody get the idea that some fighting in the wastelands of Afghanistan was going to bring us utopia.
This is regional and it will take decades to correct the terror path of the Middle East. Terrorism was always going to increase at the onset. The immediate reaction of the ignorant and the uneducated will be to join their fellow Muslim brothers against thr greatest enemy of God in history. Afer enough have been slaughtered (and we are nowhere near that point) there will be a decrease.
You don't know how to interpret these reports. This is why you can read the above and create words like "failure" and "losing" so easily. Remember the "Iraqi Civil War" these type reports "safely" reported to the public in response to the media's drama? Where did that go? Did it just dissapear or was it ever as bad as the "reports" stated? Iraq is impossible. Seems just fine considering their culture to me. Again....the reports gave you "safe" information in case the worst occurred.
Don't worry about it. After thousands more are killed all over the world, the U.S. will still be here. In the mean time, learn to read these reports.