Hey, remember the guy who bombed our downtown, killing three thousand people and restoring the Empire State Building's status as the tallest tower on our skyline? Oh, and spanked a big smoking hole into the side of our Pentagon down in D.C., plus killed a couple other planes filled with civilian Americans as well as the two he plunged into town? I'm talking about the dude who basically kicked America's ass and felt no retaliation for it, which, basically makes him pretty bad-ass, since in the past if you tried to pull that shit, you felt our country punch back, to put it mildly. Anywhoo, I know it was comforting to some red state folks when George, the nation's part time weekend manager, starting beating the hell out of another country and killed a different man instead of the one who bombed us on that Tuesday morning we all remember. But to us satan worshipping gay pornographers in the blue states, it was vexing to say the least. Anyway, seeing this piece in the Times this morning at least makes you realize you're not going crazy wondering why we seemed to give up the fight and just start a different one. Here are excerpts and a link. Okay...I'll have some herbal tea and get off my soap box.
By Mark Mazzetti and David E. Sanger
Published: July 18, 2007, The New York Times
WASHINGTON, July 17 — President Bush’s top counterterrorism advisers acknowledged Tuesday that the strategy for fighting Osama bin Laden's leadership of Al Qaeda in Pakistan had failed, as the White House released a grim new
intelligence assessment that has forced the administration to consider
more aggressive measures inside Pakistan.
The intelligence report, the
most formal assessment since the Sept. 11 attacks about the terrorist
threat facing the United States, concludes that the United States is
losing ground on a number of fronts in the fight against Al Qaeda, and
describes the terrorist organization as having significantly
strengthened over the past two years.
The intelligence report, known as a National Intelligence Estimate,
represents the consensus view of all 16 agencies that make up the
American intelligence community.
The report nevertheless left the White House fending off accusations
that it had been distracted by the war in Iraq and that the deals it
had made with President Musharraf had resulted in lost time and lost
ground.
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