Archive for October 9th, 2009
Al Qaeda Adjusting to New Era
Atwan said that Al Qaeda has managed to drag the US into wars of attrition. He explains, “when I met bin Laden in November 1996, he told me ‘I can’t fight America inside America, but if I manage to drag America to Arab and Islamic countries, then I can win because I would be fighting it in our land.’” The US so far has spent $918 billion on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq at a time when its economy is in serious crisis.
Osama bin Laden’s latest audiotape message confirms that he views the war in Afghanistan as an opportunity to fight a war of attrition against the US. Bin Laden said in the tape, which was aired on September 13
“If you [Americans] stop the war, then fine. Otherwise we will have no choice but to continue our war of attrition on every front just as we have worn out the former Soviet Union for ten years until it disintegrated.”
“Continue to fight for as long as you wish,” bin Laden warned. “You are fighting a desperate war that you can’t win.” He also observed that Obama was “powerless” to halt the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and must rethink his policy on Israel.
Many people fail to understand that OBL really did want to not only hit us where it hurt emotionally, physically, and economically, but he also wanted to drag us into this “war of attrition” that the article is talking about. Like I have mentioned before, look at what the Russians failed at in Afghanistan and the end result. Unless we come up with some smart plans or we just pull out, we will be in the morass that is Afghanistan for a long long time.
Of course though, do not expect that were we to walk away from Afghanistan that all would be well and OBL would leave us be. Nope, the Caliphate that he seeks is a global, if not “universal” one and he and his followers will never stop until they do have full control. So, its going to be a long battle kids.
What Obama seems to be moving toward now is moving the focus toward only Al Qaeda.. Whatever that means.
One only hopes that it works…
A response to a post about Meleanie Hain’s right to carry
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Author : syreene (IP: 208.65.192.1 , freefall.afginc.net) E-mail : syreene@yahoo.com
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Comment:
Hey, did you hear that she’s dead now? Yeah… shot and killed by a gun owned by her husband in an apparent murder-suicide.
Irony is a bitch.
My response:
Dear Syrene@yahoo.com,
I got your response to my posting about Meleanie Hain and just get that feeling you are some sort of ardent “anti-gun” individual who is using the unfortunate demise of Mrs Hain to poke a finger in my digitally opinionated eye.
My response to your little ironical and snarky comment is the following: “Meh”
Your inferred argument that the mere ownership of guns and exercising your right as a US citizen to bear arms (mind you in PA, it’s an “open carry” and the poor ruling by the judge in the Hain case was handily overturned) is the leading cause to one’s own demise is faulty at best. At worst, it is the usual claptrap mind drivel that I would expect from your lackluster logical thinking and poorly worded argument cum “naaa naaaa” response to my post.
The facts are these:
1) She had the right to carry her legal and licensed firearm openly in the state she resided
2) The mere act of carrying a gun never in my opinion has voided the possibility of my own or others in like circumstances, demise simply because you have one on you
3) As in many domestic cases there were issues in the home and had they not been armed with guns they likely would have picked up carving or steak knives to kill. Anything can become a weapon in the hands of a murderous minded person
4) This case was all about the legal system and the right to bear arms. NOT about bad bad guns. I advocate the law as it has been laid down by the US government and states. It was the abuse of such laws by a rogue judge that the story was all about
So thank you Syrene for your screed, which you have your right to have and post on my site because of a law known as the “First Amendment” This does not however preclude me my right to the First Amendment and label you a “moron”
CoB
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