US Drone linked to al-Qaeda leader's death
If we can wage this kind of war, we will win the GWOT despite what the Democrats think.
This is excellent news for several reasons. One being al-Qaeda #3 is dead; another notch for Dubya to carve on the oval office desk. Two, it was hi-tech. Out of nowhere. Message to terrorists: we can get you anytime, anywhere, and there's no way for you to know it's coming. Three, this has the earmarks of excellent intelligence gathering. That's men (US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and CIA) on the ground, interrogating captured terrorists (torture?), and possibly agents/informants on the inside of terrorist groups' (al-Qaeda) operations. This is why we can win and why Dubya keeps saying it is going to take time. Building up intelligence gathering in an area that had been sorely neglected during the Clinton years takes time. But these are the kind of results that we can get if we've got a little patience and persistence. |