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For President Obama, al-Qaeda is our problem now


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For-President-Obama-al-Qaeda-is-our-problem-now.htmlTelegraph.co.uk:

 

 

Killing Osama bin Laden (or rather, signing off on the ongoing military operation that killed him) might have given Barack Obama a great electoral pitch, but what exactly did it accomplish for the security of the United States and its interests? Al-Qaeda is back – big time. As a man who knew something about indefatigable terrorist organisations once said, “They haven’t gone away, you know.” As we learn more of the horrific details of the Algerian hostage crisis, it becomes clear that the old outfit is getting on just fine without its nominal head, scoring a hit of quite spectacular global proportions, which threatened nationals from as large a number of countries as would ever be likely to gather in one place of employment. I wonder how much attention this incident – or for that matter, the murder last year of an American ambassador in Libya by an organised al-Qaeda attack – will be given in Mr Obama’s second inaugural address tomorrow?

 

Al-Qaeda is no longer, of course, an organisation in the true sense at all. It is just a nom de guerre for all those Islamist jihadis who share a common purpose of driving the West – and its decadent notions of secular democracy – from the territories which it regards as its own. Where there was once a close-knit homicidal gang which could be pursued through the badlands of the Afghan border with Pakistan, there is now just a “loosely affiliated network” of freelance murderers, whose primary aims are to destabilise existing governments that are not Islamist (Mali, Algeria) and to exploit the instability created in the wake of pro-democratic uprisings (Egypt, Libya). This transformation had been ongoing for over a decade, ever since 9/11 made Osama too hot to go near. For all its symbolic value, by the time it happened, his death was largely irrelevant.

 

This has not prevented the Obama administration from effectively declaring that the war is over – at least, for the US. Whatever mopping up there is to be done of the anarchic franchise that al-Qaeda left behind, it will be for the old colonial nations to settle. France – with the help of Britain – was left to deal with Libya, trailed at a safe distance by the US, which offered only minimal assistance. Again, in Mali, France – with some help from the UK – is intervening at considerable cost financially and politically, to protect a sitting government from a violent Islamist uprising. And again, the Obama White House is making it clear that there will be no involvement of US forces. To the charge that this ought to be America’s moral business too, that it is the only global superpower and that it alone possesses the military force to defeat international terror, there is only one stony-faced reply: we killed Osama. We settled the score. We are no longer the world’s bodyguard.

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Actually, if Obama wasn't the biggest assault on the free world, al-qaeda would not be either.

 

You could not be more wrong. He could have lost his race for the Senate and so become a minor footnote in history, and al Qaeda/Islamism/Salafism would still be a problem.

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Actually, if Obama wasn't the biggest assault on the free world, al-qaeda would not be either.

 

You could not be more wrong. He could have lost his race for the Senate and so become a minor footnote in history, and al Qaeda/Islamism/Salafism would still be a problem.

 

Valin, don't get too carried away on semantics, Obama has been effectively handing America over to al-qaeda since the day he started the sellout of our nation.

 

If you don't think we are weaker because Obama does things like release troop withdrawal dates to the enemy making them stronger only proves your point.

 

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Actually, if Obama wasn't the biggest assault on the free world, al-qaeda would not be either.

 

You could not be more wrong. He could have lost his race for the Senate and so become a minor footnote in history, and al Qaeda/Islamism/Salafism would still be a problem.

 

Valin, don't get too carried away on semantics,

 

Words mean things Unless you step into the Looking Glass.

 

Obama has been effectively handing America over to al-qaeda since the day he started the sellout of our nation.

 

That would be a NO. Words mean things.

 

If you don't think we are weaker because Obama does things like release troop withdrawal dates to the enemy making them stronger only proves your point.

 

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Oh I agree...this is a very very very bad thing. A point I've made before is, I don't believe he really thinks about foreign affairs all that much, And I believe he views this war as a...distraction.

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a... distraction. We have far more important Global Warming Climate Change Extreme Weather to worry about destroying us. I heard him say it. Well, actually I read him say it, as I could not stomach to hear him say it.

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