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WashPo Columnist Blusters Over Al-Qaida Weakness - Obama's Going To Save Us
David Horowitz's NewsRealBlog ^ | January 12, 2010 | John L. Work

Posted on 01/14/2010 8:47:19 PM PST by JLWORK

Never one to run from a fist fight, I got into one at high school following the last class on a late Spring day of my sophomore year. My opponent, a short, flabby, mouthy kid, and I walked out to the athletic field. He’d been relentlessly provoking me to fight for several months and I’d finally had enough. So, out we went to do battle, climbing the perimeter chain-link fence so as not to be caught settling our differences on the school grounds.

I was pretty confident I could give this kid the beating he’d been asking for. I had a much longer reach than he did. I was stronger and in better physical condition than he was. I landed the first good punches, a few left jabs don’tcha know, and I raised a pretty good-sized red welt beneath his right eye. Then I took my gaze from him for just a quick second to look over his right shoulder at a crowd of cheering student spectators who had gathered on the other side of the fence. He knocked me out cold with an over-hand right (my friends told me later) that I never saw coming. Head aching, I sported a bruised and half-closed left eye for about a week. Ever since that day I’ve had trouble getting air through the right side of my nose, especially at night when I go to sleep.

Over at The Washington Post, Dana Milbank published a column that is just dripping with hubris and bluster over our progress in the War. Milbank believes that al-Qaida is pretty well flagging and close to being finished. He’s asserting by ridicule that if the best that al-Qaida can do is the failed Christmas Day bombing attempt aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253, we don’t have much cause...

(Excerpt) Read more at newsrealblog.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; alqaida; islam; obama; stealthjihad; wp

1 posted on 01/14/2010 8:47:22 PM PST by JLWORK
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2 posted on 01/14/2010 8:59:33 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (FR... Monthly donors welcome!)
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WaPo nutcases strike again......=.=


3 posted on 01/14/2010 9:19:08 PM PST by cranked
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... Keeping al-Qaeda to this level of “nuisance” terrorism should be the goal ...

Adhering to Marquis of Queensbury Rules - of course !!!

4 posted on 01/14/2010 9:29:59 PM PST by Lmo56
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