By Ivan Eland
January 19, 2010
President Barack Obama recently expressed a reluctance to send U.S. forces to Yemen and Somalia, two “failed states” where al-Qaeda is active. Obama seemed to realize that such a U.S. military presence might make the terrorism problem worse.
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If Obama had listened to Joe Biden and hunkered down in the more secure areas the the Christmas Day underpants bomb attempt would still have occurred with Cheney crying that al Qaeda tried it again because the US showed weakness.
Both bin Laden and neocons are looking for strife and it would be hard to find anyway to stop them without mentioning that they feed on each other.
I would like to call everyone’s attention to two historic posts at Consortium News. Which I interpret as both bin Laden and the neo-cons are interested in somewhat permanent strive and don’t mind using each other for that purpose.
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/082209a.html
http://consortiumblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/logic-of-al-qaedas-mccain-choice.html?showComment=12252 53700000#c7899683072517641995
http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/25690
Richard Kane
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