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They announced a branch? Are they like a bank, with tellers and everything?
Seriously, all it takes is 10 guys and an Internet connection, and AQ can say it has a "branch." Issuing a communiqués is not a show of strength.
Or perhaps you're suggesting that if someone else was President, we would be invading Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nigeria, Syria and a dozen other nations to try and kill every single person in the world who identifies as AQ....?
I have little doubt that this is exactly what president John McCain would be doing.
Except that Bush Junior corrected himself.....then explained that out with the War on Terror and it would not be like any other war we fought. Then explained that he knew Americans were War weary. But this was a War we cannot lose. That we must stay vigilant no matter how long the time.
He also mention Americans may not want the fight and the war to be over.....doesn't mean our enemy does.
In which he was correct and as our Enemy has shown.
Yeah, it's different because it's not a real war. It's not against a tangible enemy. It's against an ideology. And that's an unwinnable war. It's a war against anyone we don't like in the Middle East. Guess what, that's never going to go away. And we keep creating more enemies with our violence. The only way to win this war is not to fight it. We were supposed to "stay vigilant", basically forever, to allow our rights to be stripped away in the name of security, and to keep us afraid and thus complacent. The war on terror is literally the fake perpetual war from 1984.