Reply #15: The threat isn't aQ

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Like some Keystone Kops organization that's reduced to blowing up its own members in futile attacks on marketplaces is going to have the means for a serious WMD attcks any time soon. Maybe they'll tape it to the last departing Humvee so it'll follow the troops home as Dubya promised.

But it's only a matter of time - maybe 10-15 years - before some outfit like aQ (but smarter, and not necessarily Islam-related) gets a proper Bomb. Not some stupid dirty bomb, but the real thing. Most attempts will be nipped in the bud, but somebody's going to succeed one day.

And in the war-crazed world envisaged by US leaders (let's get over the fantasy that Democrat frontrunners can extricate themselves from this idiocy), those who consider themselves at the receiving end of US aggression won't hesitate to use it. And turning more countries into warzones expands their operational scope: neat "strategy", W.

The choice is between keeping the war going and seeing some cherished city centers to lie in ruins some time after 2020, or ending this insane Crusade now. I don't see much sign of the political elite or its paranoid electorate doing anything to repair the damage before it's too late.