It’s interesting that Pakistan (and nearby parts of Afghanistan) are the strongest bastions of AQ and the Taliban. Is it possible that other areas have been reached by the Western message that life can be better?

Del Dolemonte

Sometimes I share your cynicism and agree that history rewriters will be harsh on Bush. But more often than not I suspect two decades from now he will be credited for draining the swamp that is the Middle East. The first president to end the policy of appeasement. Reagan, too, was vilified, and it wasn’t until his death that the MSM had to reluctantly acquiesce that Reagan was a bold, decisive and even “great” president.

Here’s to hoping at length the truth will out.

I think the history books will look kindly on the presidency of George W. Bush.

txsurveyor on April 24, 2008 at 10:25 AM

I hate to break it to you, but the history books will not look kindly on the evil Bush’s Presidency unti a generation of historians not even born yet have written about it.

The current crop of “historians” all suffer from extreme BDS. They still don’t believe he was legitimately elected, either in 2000 or in 2004. And they refuse to even consider the possibility that Saddam and al Qaeda could have ANY type of relationship, even when such relationships have been proven and thrown back in their faces (see Bill Clinton’s Justice Department 1998 indictment of bin Laden, which specifically cites a working relationship between the two).

The Dean of American historians until his death last year was Arthur Schlesinger. He compared Bush’s actions in Iraq to the Imperial Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor in 1941. That’s all you need to know about how the current crop of poseurs will view Bush’s legacy.

Sad, isn’t it?

Al qaeda is just about as unpopular with jihadists as islam is.

This is a similar article from the Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/23/AR2008032301594.html?nav=rss_world
Out of Guantanamo and Bitter Toward Bin Laden
By Faiza Saleh Ambah
Washington Post Foreign Service
Monday, March 24, 2008; A08

JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia — A calling to defend fellow Muslims and a bit of aimlessness took Khalid al-Hubayshi to a separatists’ training camp in the southern Philippines and to the mountains of Afghanistan, where he interviewed for a job with Osama bin Laden.
Hubayshi, 32, a Saudi native, was among the Arab fighters dug in with bin Laden in the mountains of Tora Bora during the U.S. bombardment of Afghanistan in 2001. He later spent time in the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and in a Saudi jail.
He was released in 2006 into a world radically altered by the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Muslim fighters were no longer viewed in Arab countries as larger-than-life heroes, and clerics had stopped urging young Muslims to fulfill their religious duties by fighting on behalf of their brethren.
Hubayshi had also changed. He had grown disillusioned with bin Laden, whose initial idealism had turned into terrorism, he said, adding that his family, “not bin Laden,” had suffered when he was at Guantanamo.

President Bush noted this in an excellent speech recently:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/03/20080319-2.html

The surge has done more than turn the situation in Iraq around — it has opened the door to a major strategic victory in the broader war on terror. For the terrorists, Iraq was supposed to be the place where al Qaeda rallied Arab masses to drive America out. Instead, Iraq has become the place where Arabs joined with Americans to drive al Qaeda out. In Iraq, we are witnessing the first large-scale Arab uprising against Osama bin Laden, his grim ideology, and his murderous network. And the significance of this development cannot be overstated.

This is a stake in the heart to the jihadist.

Freedom is the worst enemy of al-qaeda and other muslim extremist.The more freedom the moderate muslims taste,the more they will reject the jihadist.

al-Qaeda Becoming The Enemy Of Islam, Not the Future Of Islam

Like “Radical moves dude,” and “Hey, where’d you get that radical car?”

Now it means killin’ and blowin’ stuff up.

My, how times have changed.

Try mentioning that to a liberal or an leftwing atheist and they go ballistic.

It’s amazing. They reflexively hate Christianity but have a deep love for a religion that is so much more oppressive in every sense of the word – Islam.

Any rational look at the numbers of Muslims [AQ] has killed and the amount of territory it has lost for radical jihadists should indicate that it’s been an abject failure. Muslims have been hoodwinked by Osama’s murderous theology, and a few of them have slowly begun to realize it.

And if Bush hadn’t been elected President, it would never have happened.

AQ has been in operation for 15 years now. Any rational look at the numbers of Muslims it has killed and the amount of territory it has lost for radical jihadists should indicate that it’s been an abject failure. Muslims have been hoodwinked by Osama’s murderous theology, and a few of them have slowly begun to realize it.

This is not going to make our “educational leaders” happy, but I believe, (on a different scale), the abject failure of especially our upper educational system has for most of two generations now been poisioned by a liberal-leftist theology that has been not only “captive”, but without allowing an alternative view, literally an institution into itself.

Al Qeada has had only fifteen years to spread their mantra of death and destruction to all who disagree with their jihad, that appears to be on the decline. The “poison” and indoctrination in our own institutions of higher learning may take as much effort to change.

Let us hope that the head-in-the-sand Democrats do not gain the White House, and begin to reverse the hard-won gains of the past six years. We have to stay in the Middle East, particularly in Iraq; we have to continue the fight against Islamism wherever it emerges, whether in Afganistan, Pakistan, and the multitude of other ‘-stans’; but also in the Sudan and elsewhere in Northern Africa; and in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philipines. This is a global effort, which of course the Democrats either don’t understand, or choose to ignore—or both.

….China

I hope your right that AQ is a faded flower.

Maybe focus can now be turned on the true enemy, Islamic ideology and every Muslim group that follows it.

They should have waited until another limp-wristed democrat like Carter or Clinton was in office. There would have been more appeasement and weak military responses to terrorist acts.

Even if they agree with their ultimate aims, they just get sick of their tediously hectoring voices.

I think the history books will look kindly on the presidency of George W. Bush.

txsurveyor on April 24, 2008 at 10:25 AM

I think you’re right, but in order for that to happen, we have to win this thing.