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Originally Posted by detbuch
This circularity is maddening. Al Qaeda is not an "outside" extremist org. It is a non-geographically specific ideological "base." It is an ideology, and anyone who shares that ideology is ideologically affiliated. Whatever name you wish to call them, or they wish to call themselves, they are an ideological family. The very family, the very "children of Islam" who Bin Laden spoke of. And "Al Qaeda" has evolved into a diaspora of groups and individuals of who may or may not have local aspirations, a federation if you will, but very similar ultimate models.
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And this is why Busch said we were at war with Terrorists and that it had to be fought in a completely different way than traditional war. That is why he called it like it is, "A War on Terror." He called for new methods and said this would be a long extended war because he knew it would be spread out over the world by different groups trying to destroy us.
Obama down played it and called it something else, more PC., forgot already!
"Al Qaeda is on the run", pfft, Al Qaeda and it's tentacles, including similar and unattached groups, or as you say" a diaspora of groups" will be trying to do us in for the foreseeable future. It's their only goal.