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Originally Posted by Vexation
Most of the leaders of Al-Qaeda, those very close to Bin Laden have been captured. And the last video tape sent, during the election, shows him guant(er) sick, and exhasuted. I wouldn't call the smack down and scattering of a entire terrorist group getting away free. I don't agree with Bush and his gun trotting, cowboyish policy, but I do agree with the military action taken right after 9/11.
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"Smacking down" known names doesn't mean a heck of a whole lot anymore. There was a good read in the most recent issue of Current History Magazine about the pre-Afghan war Al Qaeda and the post-Afghan war Al Qaeda.
Yes, there had been a lot of terrorist financing and training going on in Afghanistan, but much of it had been specified strictly for the purpose of waging civil war on the warlords and the Northern Alliance.
In the process of capturing and killing a lot of these leaders, we have discovered that Al Qaeda- Afghanistan had actually become a somewhat stagnant bureacracy, with its layers of paper work and procedures, such as specific forms for the purchasing of new tires for a hummer.
Now, we have scattered the monolith. In business lingo, we've essentially turned Al Qaeda in to a franchise. Al Qaeda the "structure" doesn't matter a whole heck of a lot now, because there will always be someone there to take on the mantle of "Al Qaeda." This is why killing underlings and capturing Osama may not matter as much now as it may have in the past......