[Old Retired Army Guy]

Okay now who wants to volunteer to take his place?

[Old Retired Army Guy]

Uh, what happended to everyone?

[La Lydia]

Jawa is saying this guy is actually Al-Masri, who only became head of al Qaeda operations in the region in July of this year. His predecessor, Mustafa Abu Yazid was killed in May. We are picking them off almost as fast as they can promote them.

[JPG]

When they asked for a volunteer the last time this was the only dude who didn't take a step back.

[adorno]

Okay now who wants to volunteer to take his place?

When it comes to radical Islam and the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, there won't be shortage of people willing to take his place.

Killing a "leader" is not going to win the war in Afghanistan. So, how many countless "leaders" did we kill in the war so far? Killing a leader just allows us to claim, through newspaper headlines, that "we're making progress" and the "enemy is on the run"; all of that while the reality on the ground is still very precarious.

We can try to win the hearts and minds of the people, but, it's not the regular folks who are waging war in Afghanistan and elsewhere.

The only way to win that war and all wars against radical Islam and against Al-Qaeda, is to eliminate everyone who even remotely sympathizes with the radical elements of Islam. (Yeah, I know, there will be some who will point out that Islam is, by design, radical in itself, and those people might have a point). But, essentially, we're not fighting to win, and we're just trying to contain them. Let's see... where did we make that same mistake before... hmmm... oh, yeah, Vietnam comes to mind (and the enemy did win that war in the end).