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Think Again: Al Qaeda Excerpt below, follow link for full article. http://www.foreignpolicy.com/article...aeda?page=full Quote:
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Re: Think Again: Al Qaeda Great post and sadly the majority of people thinking OBL's death is the end of Al Qaeda. Not giving thought to the fact that public popular opinion is that they have been done multiple times over the last ten and half years. They have a knack for rooting themselves in politically unstable regions and luckily for them their has been quite a bit of that in the regions closest to were they were originally based pre-9/11. With Pakistan and it's distrust skyrocketing and approval of American involvement in the Middle East diving, Uprising in Libya,Egypt and Syria, political instability in the Congo,Nigeria, Kenya, and Northern Africa, a inability and lack of proper international and individual national policing power has made it all too easy for them to just uproot and go 12-24 hours travel time to a receptive area and inhabitants. When you don't have a home base or country with heavy roots you can do that and I think that was a major factor not calculated in the directives from the very beginning. Is how to properly cut them off from leaving one country where the Coalition has engagement clearance to a country that they are not allowed to enter....fucked up all around I say! |
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Re: Think Again: Al Qaeda Quote:
Good post. Its almost more of trying to defeat a way of thinking, more than defeating a group or person. That's why Bush's black & white, good & evil approach to it pissed me off so much...... Its not something that can be beaten with military force alone, if anything the Iraq invasion just created the next generation of people willing to die to kill us. Until we can keep people from being brainwashed by fanatics, this will probably never end. |
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Re: Think Again: Al Qaeda Yes. Al Qaeda has surpassed an establishment, or army. It is an idea that many have adopted regardless of where they are, or live. When that happens, it will get worse. You can kill a man. You can kill an army, but good luck killing an idea. |
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Re: Think Again: Al Qaeda Anyone looking for an authoritative text on this subject should look no futher than Jason Burke's book Al Qaeda. It's a little dated now, but the origins of the movement are still true and captured in this book. Unlike so many terrorism 'experts', Burke has spent a lot of time in the Middle East and Afghanistan in particular. |