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
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