Flashbacks RE: Regarding Islamic Terrorists

[usmcstinger]

Flashback: After the death of Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants, al Qaeda has been decimated, scattered across the North Africa and the Middle East and able to launch only small-scale attacks, Mr. Obama told an audience gathered at the National Defense University in Washington.
FLASHBACK Obama Al Qaeda is on a path to defeat calls for resetting terror policy - Washington Times

FLASHBACK: In President Obama’s address to the nation on September 10, he used Yemen as an example of a successful anti-terror strategy that could be employed in the fight against ISIS:Flashback 2014 Obama Touts Success Against Al Qaeda in Yemen - Breitbart

Flashback: ISIS are like the JV of Terrorists

Are more Flashbacks yet to come?

 

[Osomir]

Flashback: After the death of Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants, al Qaeda has been decimated, scattered across the North Africa and the Middle East and able to launch only small-scale attacks, Mr. Obama told an audience gathered at the National Defense University in Washington.
FLASHBACK Obama Al Qaeda is on a path to defeat calls for resetting terror policy - Washington Times

FLASHBACK: In President Obama’s address to the nation on September 10, he used Yemen as an example of a successful anti-terror strategy that could be employed in the fight against ISIS:Flashback 2014 Obama Touts Success Against Al Qaeda in Yemen - Breitbart

Flashback: ISIS are like the JV of Terrorists

Are more Flashbacks yet to come?

A few things to note:

1.) Al Qaeda Central was decimated, first by our invasion of Afghanistan, and then by our subsequent drone program and international cooperation (in one significant instance from Iran as well). That hasn't changed. Al Qaeda central is still relatively weak and unable to carry out large scale operations. Even more dangerous in the Pakistani/Afghan area now is the Haqqani Network.

2.) Yemen does represent a successful area of counter terror operations. The recent north-south civil conflict doesn't in any way diminish the success we've seen against AQAP. That is a completely different and unrelated issue to the operations that we have engaged in regarding Yemen.

3.) ISIS (ISI at the time) had been soundly beaten with the 2005 Awakening. Its revival was in no small part due to the policies of the Maliki government coupled with the Syrian civil war.

 

[jwoodie]

Flashback: After the death of Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants, al Qaeda has been decimated, scattered across the North Africa and the Middle East and able to launch only small-scale attacks, Mr. Obama told an audience gathered at the National Defense University in Washington.
FLASHBACK Obama Al Qaeda is on a path to defeat calls for resetting terror policy - Washington Times

FLASHBACK: In President Obama’s address to the nation on September 10, he used Yemen as an example of a successful anti-terror strategy that could be employed in the fight against ISIS:Flashback 2014 Obama Touts Success Against Al Qaeda in Yemen - Breitbart

Flashback: ISIS are like the JV of Terrorists

Are more Flashbacks yet to come?

A few things to note:

1.) Al Qaeda Central was decimated, first by our invasion of Afghanistan, and then by our subsequent drone program and international cooperation (in one significant instance from Iran as well). That hasn't changed. Al Qaeda central is still relatively weak and unable to carry out large scale operations. Even more dangerous in the Pakistani/Afghan area now is the Haqqani Network.

2.) Yemen does represent a successful area of counter terror operations. The recent north-south civil conflict doesn't in any way diminish the success we've seen against AQAP. That is a completely different and unrelated issue to the operations that we have engaged in regarding Yemen.

3.) ISIS (ISI at the time) had been soundly beaten with the 2005 Awakening. Its revival was in no small part due to the policies of the Maliki government coupled with the Syrian civil war.

Ah, word mincing at its finest!

 

[Osomir]

Ah, word mincing at its finest!

Just simple facts, if you disagree feel free to post a rebuttal.

 

[Tom Sweetnam]

I'm so glad OBL is kicking up daisies...or little fishies as the case may be. The fact that no other Muslim lunatic was there to fill the void is a testament to the peace and harmony now descended upon the brothers of Islam. Sniff...