Osama Bin Laden dead

[Sergei Titov]

Originally Posted by MT2008

You guys know what this means, right? It means we're getting the fuck out of Afghanistan. Obama has just the excuse he needs - we took out the head of Al-Qaeda, which means they're pretty much destroyed*, so why stay in Afghanistan when finishing off Al-Qaeda was the objective all along?
*Of course, the withdrawal was inevitable anyway, and it's debatable whether Bin Laden was really in charge the last 10 years.

Someone else will just take control of it. Some lowly middle manager etc. The center of Al-Qaeda has actually moved more to Yemen, and the US is increasing drone strikes there. Just because he's gone dosen't mean the end of Al-Qaeda. There are many other AQ leaders.

[k9870]

Holy zombie thread.

[MT2008]

Originally Posted by Michael Westen

Someone else will just take control of it. Some lowly middle manager etc. The center of Al-Qaeda has actually moved more to Yemen, and the US is increasing drone strikes there. Just because he's gone dosen't mean the end of Al-Qaeda. There are many other AQ leaders.

(1.) Duh (the * made it pretty clear that I am aware of this)

(2.) Don't bring up old, dead threads again, please.

[Jcordell]

Wow it's The Walking Thread. Okay just wanted something irreverent for my 400th posting. I think was can close this thread down don't you?