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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: GST who wrote (122785)1/4/2004 10:20:14 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
We failed to bring key al Qaeda "hotspots" under control.


Afghanistan is either under control, or being brought under control. Pashtunistan on the border is a harder nut to crack, but it is being guarded and patrolled. I don't see any Al Qaeda camps in operation there now, do you? Whoever is there is keeping his head down and staying off his sat phones.

So I don't buy an Afghan failure. Where else? Somalia is moving towards cooperation, the Saudis are starting to get religion (double entendre intended) wrt Al Qaeda. We have our eye on Syria, and Boy Assad is very likely to find himself on the business end of some US raids if he doesn't knock off the funny stuff. Iran is really the one hot spot that's too big to handle, bud if you've noticed we now have armies on both sides of them.

So where exactly is this 'regrouping' supposed to be happening? links? evidence?
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