Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has been taken out.

[Don Roley]

The 19 guys with box cutters of 9/11 were not Taliban, they were al Qaeda.
The Taliban was a political/military organization running Afghanistan.

The Taliban were primarily Afghani.
The 19 guys were primarily Saudi.


If you refuse to understand the basic differences in these distinctions, we need to be deathly afraid of any group of 19 guys, anywhere in the world, at all times. At that point, everything becomes meaningless. Let's just nuke the world.

I don't think you need to take that tone. Nobody is talking about nuking the world.

The simple fact is that we have seen what 19 guys with box cutters can do. I did not say they were AQ. So saying that they are irrelevent when we know what just a few guys can do was the point that you missed.

But AQ and the Taliban were partners. They learned from each other and gave support to each other. There is no reason to believe that they have cut their ties with each other. Especially since they face a common enemy and are hiding out in the same area, share a common outlook, etc. If they are not the same orginization in all but name, then they are allies at the least and taking out the Taliban hardly helps Al Queada.

 

[Grenadier]

ATTENTION ALL USERS:

SECOND AND FINAL WARNING

Please keep the discussion at a mature, respectful level. Please review our sniping policy http://www.martialtalk.com/forum/sho...d.php?p=427486. Feel free to use the Ignore feature to ignore members whose posts you do not wish to read (it is at the bottom of each member's profile). Thank you.

-Ronald Shin
-MT Moderator-