The single biggest obstacle to finishing off Al Qaeda is, unfortunately, Pakistan. As this recent bust has demonstrated, AQ have moved command and control and training operations from Afghanistan to Pakistan, where they can operate in corners of the country that the central government does not fully control. The good news? The Pakistani government is helping. They played a key role in stopping the current plot. Nevertheless, unless the government can fully control wild tribal areas like Waziristan, they will not be able to root out AQ. And due to internal political issues, Pakistan can't invite coalition troops right on the border in Afghanistan to hunt down the terrorists in Pakistan.
Still, I agree that we need to go to the source and stop young men from being recruited into a global jihad that holds only death for them. On 8/13/06, Gruss wrote: > > I've been critical of the Iraq strategy since before the infamous > Congress vote. Bush himself has changed his justification numerous > times: > > > The U.S. approach to destroying al Qaeda has primarily used a "kill or > capture" strategy to try to eliminate the group's leaders. The > thinking has been that the experience, charisma and organizational > skills of the top men would be difficult or impossible to replace. But > this "decapitation strategy" appears to be failing against the > organization -- especially as it grows into a social movement that > links like-minded groups feeding off anti-American sentiment to > attract new recruits and sources of funding. > > [HERE IT IS - THEY JUST MIGHT BE GETTING IT!] > > U.S. and British intelligence officials now are concentrating on > finding ways to undermine al Qaeda by disrupting the means by which > new terrorists are recruited and imbued with violent zealotry. > "Islamic radicalization is something that is a subject of significant > interest and study within the intelligence community," says Charles E. > Allen, intelligence chief of the Homeland Security Department. > -------------------------------------------------- > And what causes such radicalization? Hmmm ... what could it be ... -- --------------- Robert Munn www.funkymojo.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:213083 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
