Playing the al Qaeda game instead of a winning game

All terrorists live by convincing potential recruits that they have power and creating fear and division among their real opponents. The US, UK and EU are not the real perceived enemy of al Qaeda - Saudi Arabia is the first enemy. Iran may not realize it but they will be the number two enemy, then Egypt, Indonesia, Pakistan... Get it! Sending troops to Afghanistan suits them - helps them recruit new members who will then be turned on their home states. Get it - good. Let's get out of Kabul!

clipped from www.williampfaff.com Playing al Qaeda's Game on 2010/1/6 17:10:00 (108 reads) Paris, 5 January, 2010 – It is not widely understood that the policy objective of al Qaeda is not to attack the western countries, which in itself accomplishes nothing. The ultimate purpose of al Qaeda is to bring about an upheaval in the Islamic world in which Islam can be rescued from corrupted governments and degenerate practices. Why should al Qaida or the Taliban wish to fight in Peoria, Illinois, or a garden suburb of London? There are no recruits to be made there, and nothing to be gained in the real battle which the Muslim extremists are waging: which is to radicalize the Muslim world, and to rescue their co-religionists from heretical beliefs and Western practices.