RKMBs Forums .::Important::. Politics and Current Events September 11: Seven Years Later

Yeah, both attacks on the WTC were planned by Al Quaeda during Clinton's administration. That isn't his fault. However, it shows they were going to attack us no matter who was president in 2001.

There are less terorists now Ray then there were in 2001. We are killing them. 9/11/01 will go down in history as the date that signaled the end of radical muslims. Give it another 10 years.

You mean the guy who hides in a cave all day and hasn't caused anymore terrorist attacks in years? The one who only comes out of hiding every couple months and makes threats but never follows up on them?

Osama Bin Laden is the original former Insurgent!

A well-respected America would be a safe America.

An extract of Bob Woodward's excellent new book is currently on the New Yorker website. Former commander of US forces in Iraq General Casey's solution to Iraq was to get out because the Iraqi government would become dependent on a US military presence and because Iraqi culture resents an occupying force. I have agreed with this in recent times. But then Casey was bumped up the Chief of Staff and General Petreaus took over. Petreaus's solution was the famous "surge" which was always going to calm Baghdad - you have 40000 disciplined troops in a city and the city is going to get safe. But it was not just the surge: it was also excellent intelligence, tolerance of the Sunnis, and an understanding of what Iraqis were complaining about. Petreaus has on the face of it done what Rumsfeld and Cheney should have planned for back when the invasion took place: a subtle and clever combination of hard power and soft power. US forces started to look tolerant and benign compared to al Qaeda, who were kidnapping and killing Iraqis.

This is an America I can respect. Its a smart, sophisticated America. Its the sort of America that sorted out Japan. Any Iraqi contemplating becoming an insurgent can see the whip but he can taste the carrot.

did you not read the entire thread? under Clinton we were considered compromisers and engaged in the international community, very well respected internationally. the crazy fuckers still bombed us. you cant give food to a rabis dog and expect it to sit, you take it out back like old yeller.

Oh, great, now you're expecting me to read the entire thread.

Associated Press:

• Top U.S. counterterrorism officials Monday said Al Qaeda is "imploding" and that its violent tactics have turned Muslims worldwide against the organization.
  
  Al Qaeda still remains the most dangerous threat to the United States. But of growing concern are organizations like Lebanese Hezbollah and Hamas, which combine social services, local governance, national politics with extremist attacks, said Undersecretary of State James Glassman.
  
  Vastly more Muslims than Westerners are killed by Al Qaeda car and suicide bombs, particularly in Iraq, where local tribes have largely turned against Al Qaeda in Iraq in the last two years.
  
  Extremist violence claimed more than 9,500 civilian victims in Muslim countries in 2007.

Ouch. Bsams sure did call that one wrong.

"That one"?