I know others have posted on The New Republic article by Peter Bergen and Paul Cruickshank, which came out May 23rd, but I want to add this assessment on the decline of al-Qaeda to the list of other similar articles I have been highlighting this week. With one important additional angle – how this article […]

Major Update At The End As I noted in the earlier post below, al-Qaeda has been retreating from a range of defeats in Iraq, Lebanon (and I forgot to mention Afghanistan which is over 75% pacified) and is being surrounded by allied forces. This has allowed allied forces to use intelligence to take out 3 […]

Yesterday I posted on many diverse articles that indicate a rapidly declining al-Qaeda as their credibility has been destroyed through their fascist efforts to violently oppress their fellow Muslims, resulting in innumerable stories of atrocities and the creation of Muslim heros in those who fought back against al-Qaeda.  Today we get another report on the […]

I would not have predicted, in the year or so after 9-11, that we would find ourselves 7 years later without any new terrorist attacks in the US, and al-Qaeda and their ilk fading in popularity across the Muslim community. And (if one wants to skip to the end of this post) who would have […]

Addendum:  In the post below I note the war in Iraq is America’s war – not Bush’s war.  I reminded folks that Congress approved the action overwhelmingly (by much larger margins than Gulf War I) and Bush was reelected in a vote of confidence from Americans themselves.  I failed to note Congress has for each […]

Things have become so bad for al-Qaeda’s support from the Muslim Street even Newsweek is reporting that, after 7 years of war with the West, the Muslim Street is turning against al-Qaeda:   Back in the mid-1990s, Osama bin Laden had a problem, and it was Islam. He wanted to say the Qur’an gave his followers license to […]

Chris Plant today noted a disturbing spike in Americans killed and wounded over the weekend just past. Eight dead with eight more wounded. In the space of one weekend the death toll was 40% of the death toll in all of Iraq for Americans last month. At this horrific pace (8 deaths in 3 days) […]

Reader Frogg noted a story where the UK Commander in Afghanistan is asserting that our efforts in the War on Terror in that country have put us on the brink of victory: The new “precise, surgical” tactics have killed scores of insurgent leaders and made it extremely difficult for Pakistan-based Taliban leaders to prosecute the […]

As May 2008 went into the record books as the month with the lowest fatality levels of the entire war, the people of the world awoke this morning to a series of news reports covering the success of Iraq. Probably the most interesting was an editorial in the Washington Post today: The Iraqi Upturn Don’t […]

Obama talks a big talk about how others must admit their mistakes. This transparent campaign slogan is coming back to haunt him big time as the he is forced to face his own mistakes on the war in Iraq: The widespread conviction among Democrats that we are destined to fail in Iraq was the key […]