Comments on Al Qaeda in Yenemsvelt

The Left? or Obama's hawkish foreign policy advisors?

(Don't bring up the tired "Hillary would be worse/the same!", she's not the nominee. As Barry would say, Get Over It.)

@1 dude, you are waaayyy off topic.

"The Left needs Al Qaeda to be an ominous threat to proclaim that Bush has failed."

Wrong. The left should want the US to stop occupying other countries, and to shift our permanent war economy into a peace economy. It benefits from Al Queda not being a threat.

The real reason Al Q is not a major threat is because they've worn out their welcome with their fellow Arabs and other Muslims. They're under increasing philosophical attack from their former jihadi supporters (see the New Yorker article last month), and they've thoroughly pissed off even their most sympathetic supporters in places like Iraq and Saudi Arabia. Everyone knows that their sudden infatuation with the Palestinian cause is pure opportunism. Jihadis everywhere are starting to realize what a loser their tactics have been; as one guy in that article said, "I we hadn't assassinated Sadat there would be a Palestinian state today".

Violence appears to manifest in all socities undergoing large cultural shifts. It's happened here as well; the sixties being a good example. The Arab world is going through intense change brought about by technology and globalisation. Add to that the Gulf war in the 90's and the rush of American influence that followed and you have a recipe for violence. It is the only way some have to express their resistance especially when it can't be expressed through democracy. That's the way I see it anyway. Time will quell the upheavel. If bombing innocent civilians is their answer, they're doomed to fail anyway.

Yenemsvelt? Isn't that in Skamania?!?

OMFG! AL QUAEDA'S RIGHT ON OUR DOORSTEP!!!!

Sorry for the allcaps, by the way.

I was shouting.

News flash: More than 90 percent of al-Qaeda's support - in real terms of MONEY and VOLUNTEERS is from one country and one country only - Saudi Arabia.

Get the nation off of oil and they die on the vine.

Period.