Kill Osama to Defeat Qaeda: McChrystal

[tekisui]

Source: Indian Express

Osama bin Laden is an iconic figure among extremists who must be captured or killed in order to defeat al-Qaeda, top US commander in Afghanistan Gen Stanley McChrystal said on Tuesday.

“I don’t think that we can finally defeat al-Qaeda until he’s captured or killed,” McChrystal told lawmakers before a Senate committee.

He also cautioned that killing or capturing the Saudi-born leader of the group that mounted the September 11, 2001 attacks would not by itself dismantle al-Qaeda.

McChrystal said Osama’s very existence fanned extremism globally. “I believe he is an iconic figure at this point, whose survival emboldens al-Qaeda as a franchising organisation across the world.”

more: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Kill-Osama-to-defeat-Qaeda--McChrystal/552110
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Great. We can't declare success until a dead man is killed or captured. And even then we may not be able to declare success.

[arcadian]

1. McChrystal added that the U.S. must construct a giant death ray

to defeat the Lunar Martian menace, that their tripods were probably already on Earth.

[spanone]

2. so, if bin laden's dead, we'll never win the war

and by the way general, what IS winning?

[FiveGoodMen]

3. Right. This one mastermind is the lone threat to the world.

How dumb does one have to be to buy that bullshit?

[Sebastian Doyle]

4. We must remember that McChrystal is a KNOWN liar

He was the principle architect of the coverup of Pat Tillman's death, and the attempt to repackage it as a "feelgood patriotism" story. Motherfucker should have been forced into early retirement for that alone.

Osama is dead. Al Qaeda is mostly fiction. McChrystal is an asshole. End of story.

[kenny blankenship]

5. Yeah this isn't an "open-ended" war or anything that will go on slaughtering people for decades

So glad we are making only a limited "final push" commitment...
At least with the fraudulent invasion of Iraq there was a way to prove the pretext of invasion was false. It's a pity that the proof led inexorably to the ethnic cleansing of Iraq and a million unnecessary deaths - carnage which goes on still and for the foreseeable future. But there was an endpoint to the pretext: when Iraq had been turned inside-out the mass hysteria over weapons of mass destruction fizzled out and died. But there's no endpoint in searching for "the hideout" of a dead man.

This guy McChrystal is either a dangerous nutcase or dangerous lying warmongering demagogue. What a great appointment.
Heckuvajob, Barry!