Where's the Baath party today? Gone. Gaining ground? Not even close. AQ was never a governmental entity. PLO we're not at war with, neither Fatah nor Hamas - thus no argument.
It is very much a part of the argument, because they are in the same category. The Baath Party is alive and well and walking throughout the insurgency in Iraq. The only difference between the Tali Ban and Al Queda was that one was a government. However, the Taliban has now been reduced to the terror and militant levels of Al Queda. They are all the same. All movements made up of the same type of people, except the Taliban has a large mercenary base.
You can argue that the Tali Ban is different from other Islamic organizations because they are more power inspired and less religious inspired, but what exactly do you think these religious zealots are really after? It's all about power over others and the Tali Ban is no different-which is why the Tali Ban and Al-Queda found such comfort with each other.
Taliban had been displaced into a near non-existence before, but now they are back.
The Taliban, like the Baathist Party and the Sunni Iraqi military, were merely removed from power and they dissolved into the population to fight another day.
They were never any where near "non-existent" and there are literally hundreds of millions of futureless, unemplyed, bored Islamists in the Middle East to recruit from. And this is why I have always insisted that unless the Middle East remains unchanged and set in it's self destructive ways, chasing down terrorist as they appear is like punching thin air.
So much that they have regained control that they launched a coordinated bombing on our AFB with intel of the VP there; these are the undeniable facts.
These are not "undeniable facts." An undeniable fact is that bombs go off in front of our bases all the time. Another undeniable fact is that there was nothing impressive about this "coordinated" attack. We have a suicide bomber who was reported to have been targetting Cheney. However, this idiot blew himself up outside of the base and got no where near him.
However, Muslims from all over the region are now inspired by the Tali Ban's rediculous claims at
how close Islamic militants came to killing the Vice President of the United States.
It's not that easy to sit next to an airport and tell who is there or not and then have the means to do so.
Yes it is. If Somali warlords had the ability to count vehicles comeing to a from our bases in every country's sector to enable them to know when and where to strike at a UN delivery, then certainly Islamic militants have the ability to sit at airports and determine their own desired intel.
Because bombs go off all the time, the equipment is readily available. Because regular security details within convoys are relatively the same, it would be easy enough to tell that this particular cargo contained something other than the garden variety visitor. And since our enemy's faces are memorized by our own military guards at gates, it is a pretty safe bet that our enemy's intelligence officers and agents have the ability to recognize the face of the Vice President of the United States.