"Al-Qaida is back and stronger than ever" screams this headline in the Guardian's May 19 edition. The gloating of the Bush administration nonwithstanding, it appears that a) the terrorist organization is doing quite well for itself, adjusting to changed circumstances and toughter security around government buildings, b) continuing to attract recruits and c) well and truly pissed off.
Meanwhile, looters hit nuclear waste facilities in Iraq and waltzed off with G-d knows what. Also, everybody in Iraq has machine guns now, since those weren't secured either.
This war made us safer how, exactly? Please tell me again that this is just sour grapes talking?
It seems we're trapped between two insane groups of people with strongly held beliefs. The one, a bunch of religious fanatics who understand us just well enough to figure out how to kick us where it hurts, and the other, a group of people with absolute conviction of the rightness of their cause, and an eye for profit. Alas, they are our leaders. That had better change come November 2004.
--> www.guardian.co.uk/alqaida/ story/0,12469,958881,00.html
