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Obama: "but Bin Laden's dead and Al Qaeda has been defeated." No. THEY WON.
by sinnerswing 13y ago
Obama: "but Bin Laden's dead and Al Qaeda has been defeated."
No. THEY WON.
- adventured 13y agoMeanwhile, we're about to leave Afghanistan to the Taliban, and we're supplying arms to Al Qaeda loyalists in Syria.
- eightyone 13y agoBill Maher has an excellent clip on this. He boils it down to, "Basically we're arming Al Qaeda." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6paYu3GM2Y http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6paYu3GM2Y
- anigbrowl 13y agoNo they didn't; vrtually none of their objectives have been met, except that of getting the US to remove its military forces from Saudi Arabian soil. I get your point, but it's a purely rhetorical one that has little to do with actual history. Al Qaeda had real objectives of their own, rather than simply existing to make us fearful.
- joelrunyon 13y agoBin Laden's overall strategy against much larger enemies such as the Soviet Union and United States was to lure them into a long war of attrition in Muslim countries, attracting large numbers of jihadists who would never surrender. He believed this would lead to economic collapse of the enemy nations. Al-Qaeda manuals clearly express this strategy. In a 2004 tape broadcast by al-Jazeera, bin Laden spoke of "bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy". [1] [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden#Beliefs_and_ideology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden#Beliefs_and_ide...
- anigbrowl 13y agoThat doesn't really bear out your point.
- joelrunyon 13y agoI wasn't the one making the point. That said, if their goal was to bankrupt us & draw us out by a war of attrition - it's easy to say that they achieved their objective.