The US claims that it has nearly finished off Al Qaeda. The reverse may also be true.
On the Ropes
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication, WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "The Stringer."
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Can’t be too difficult if your self-avowed enemy spends literally $trillions to recruit FOR you.
UNFAIR TED!! Pakistanis aren’t going to attack Americans! We only kill people in self -defence. And we are certainly not Al Qaeda’s B Team, and they aren’t ours, DESPITE what some unelected fanatics in my country wish was happening.
Al Qaeda idiots are a retarded bunch of Muslim Baader Meinhofs.
The Taliban on the other hand (Pakistani and Afghan), is serious business.
Maybe instead of Pakistan you had mentioned the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, or one of the crazy Lashkars we suffer from…..
You should really get up to speed with Al Qaeda’s real allies, and I don’t want to hear any bullshit about, oh Pakistani intelligence this & that. It’s religious fanatics, doing this shit, ok.
Not to worry, Ted ! In the capacity to maim and murder, the US government and its military – or is it the other way ’round ? – remains second to none. That the country’s broke – or to be more explicit, that living conditions for a majority of its inhabitants have declined in recent years and government finances are a joke – is irrelevant to those who determine US policy ; they are still able to extort sufficient funds to maintain their lifestyles and their wars….
Henri