Well let’s start at the beginning.
The foe was a guy named Ayman with Coke bottled glasses.
As recently as 1999, his correspondence would show he gave his colleagues a hard time when they replaced a fax or upgraded a computer without his advance authorization because they had such meager funds.
Then he and his few hundred supporters — who were endlessly bickering — picked a fight with a world power.
Now billions and billions of dollars he and his network remain about the same, having shown great resilience. But now for a while there he was averaging one video every 2.7 days. Last week I read 11 books on Bin Laden terrorism, most focused on how we fared in the 1990s. If you think we are doing any better, you haven’t learned much from the history. 9/11 was entirely avoidable as was WTC 1993. As will be the next attack.
Show me a single Presidential candidate who could have accomplished what Zawahiri has.
Nice to see you singing the praises of our enemy.
My gracious, you certainly seem to know a great deal about topics our intelligence departments find opaque, including the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden at any given moment. Perhaps instead of reading what was it, eleven books in a week about the same topic you ought to be professing...or is that what you're here for?
As far as the anthrax threat, nothing of the sort is as clear-cut as you're stating it. Weaponized anthrax was the topic of at least a half-dozen BW programs of my knowledge, including Saddam's. That isn't speculation in his case. And pursuit of his NBC programs wasn't as futile as you're pretending (for political purposes, I suggest, even while you're stating that politics is immaterial to you, which is, I am afraid, a lie, else why would you be here?); far from it, if anything it validates the worldwide suspicion toward Saddam which you're conveniently side-stepping in an effort to make our efforts in Iraq appear misdirected.
The al-Qaeda network is, if you have actually read one reputable source on the topic, much less eleven, quite a bit attenuated from that of 1998. The war is not endless, and al-Qaeda is not omnipresent and omniscient. Endlessly footnoted garbage is still garbage. Welcome to FR.
ZacandPook...you read nearly as many books as Al Gore does! What do you do for work? That is nearly two books a night...I consider myself pretty well read, but it takes me about three days to get through a book.
I suspect if I got through nearly two books a night, my wife would divorce me...but hey, I am a slow reader!