Quote:
Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Combatting it in Afghanistan made it hard to combat? What does this mean? We should have left them there, but asked them to stop the camps? At a minimum there is no country entirely ran for al Queda where it can freely trains 10's of thousands of fighters.
|
My sole, and repeated, point was that AQ has been adding recruits at a rapid pace, and that it's unclear that club's argument that "there are fewer of them today than before" is accurate. I've also said that we'll have to wait and see if the ranks of new recruits are exceeding the ranks of dead ones.
I don't really consider this to be a controversial argument, and I'm a bit perplexed at your dissatisfaction with it.
If you're not really contesting that point, but instead wandering off into the weeds of whether the report is making the argument that we shouldn't have gone to Afghanistan, be my guest, but don't expect me to follow you there.
FWIW, I don't think the report makes that argument, but in any event, I'm certainly not, and it's irrelevant to the observation I was trying to make.
Gattigap
