Fisking Juan Cole: A Photo Gallery

Professor Juan Cole, President of the Middle East Studies Association, doesn’t think we are really at war.

War on Terror Over
The Bush administration is giving up the phrase “global war on terror.”
I take it this is because they have finally realized that if they are fighting a war on terror, the enemy is four guys in a gymn (sic) in Leeds. It isn’t going to take very long for people to realize that a) you don’t actually need to pay the Pentagon $400 billion a year if that is the problem and b) whoever is in charge of such a war isn’t actually doing a very good job at stopping the bombs from going off. [Emphasis added.]

I don’t know what to say. So I won’t say anything. I’ll just post some photos instead. Let’s see if they jibe with the professor’s “four guys are the enemy” theory.


September 11, 2001

September 11, 2001

U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, after Al Qaeda attack

Among the wounded in Nairobi

Taliban execution in Kabul

Taliban execution in Herat

Election workers assassinated in Baghdad

Nightclub in Bali after Al Qaeda attack

Nightclub in Bali after Al Qaeda attack

Woman mourning her murdered baby in Beslan, Russia

American Embassy in Tanzania after Al Qaeda attack

Restaurant in Casablanca, Morocco, after Al Qaeda attack

Daniel Pearl

Young gay men executed for being gay in Iran

Hamas

Hezbollah

Hezbollah

Train in Madrid after Al Qaeda attack

Nick Berg

Algerian civilian after his throat was slit by Salafis

Village in Darfur under attack by Islamists

Ethnically “cleansed” village in Darfur