Sunday, September 11, 2005
Al Qaeda is our golem.
Having helped create it, we carelessly ignored ( and unconsciously fostered) its development until September 11, 2001. Our response since then could be taken as a textbook case on how to grow and develop a terrorist organization. Mark Danner, in todays NYT magazine, has a comprehesive article detailing what has really happened in the last 4 years of ODEL's WOT.
On this sad anniversary day Juan Cole gives us another view of Our Dear Embattled Leaders threadbare legacy.
Nearly two years ago, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, in a confidential memorandum, posed the central question about the war on terror: "Are we capturing, killing or deterring and dissuading more terrorists every day than the madrassas and the radical clerics are recruiting, training and deploying against us?" The answer is clearly no. "We have taken a ball of quicksilver," says the counterinsurgency specialist John Arquilla, "and hit it with a hammer."
On this sad anniversary day Juan Cole gives us another view of Our Dear Embattled Leaders threadbare legacy.
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