Good news, everyone. The third-highest ranking member of al-Qaeda in Yemen was probably killed today in an airstrike. I think it’s safe to say that there aren’t any more third-ranking members of al-Qaeda left anywhere in the world.
The War On Terror has been hell for those third-ranking members.
It’s one small step on the road to total victory against terror. Can’t you feel it?
No one wants to answer why: Why do these men do what they do? They don't hate us for our freedoms (what the hell does that mean), that's for sure. Ray McGovern answers the why for Helen Thomas here: http://consortiumnews.com/2010/010810b.html
But #3 is gone. But it's like the war on drugs. Take out number 3 and ten thousand or ten hundred thousand are ready to fill his spot. And we keep on creating more and more of these guys, who once were regular folks like you and me who suddenly, for reasons our government won't go into, decide they want to work to be another #3.
But isn't that the point. There's money to be made in that game. But not for regular folks like you and me. We're just another one of the marks that our national US con men try to convince that the lie is real. But without why, it's hard to believe anyone even buys the line. But they do. And many line up to be soldiers. Not so much anymore, but for the economy. Maybe that's why the economy had to fall, the folks lining up at the recruiter's offices got too thin. Ya think?
Posted by: Buck on January 15, 2010 4:57 PMAgree; it's a real advantage for U.S. armed forces to be the favored federal "military program" employer of last resort (The right-wing CCCorps). And perhaps that's a serious contributing reason unions had to be broken, and U.S. wages arbitraged against third-world non-union labor rates.
Posted by: Hoffmann on January 15, 2010 5:20 PMFor how many years now have we heard we got that guy then we got this biggy over there while this one got hammered and we may have got another along with his assistants and we're planning on doing more while in the meantime we're hatching this strategy to make everything real fucking peachy everywhere.
I'm so fucking sick of it. As Buck says----
Posted by: One Fly on January 15, 2010 6:19 PMAs I watch the coverage of suffering in Haiti, my thoughts often turn to Iraq. How is it that the misery and destruction caused by an earthquake demand greater attention and sympathy than the destruction and misery inflicted upon innocent people by our bombs?
I think honesty requires a split screen when informing Americans about disaster and death. One half of our tv screens should show the hell that is Haiti and the other the hell that is Iraq.
Let the viewer see the consequences of natural AND man made disasters.