Speaking at a town hall meeting today in Shanghai, President Barack Obama declared that al-Qaeda remains the “greatest threat to the United States’ security” and said that they have moved from Afghanistan into Pakistan.
It is no secret, of course, that General Stanley McChrystal informed the administration just two months ago that there is no sign of any significant al-Qaeda presence in Afghanistan, nevertheless, President Obama says that “stabilizing” the nation, by which he means continuing the nearly decade long US occupation, remains a vital aspect of this conflict with al-Qaeda.
Obama’s comments are expected to be parroted almost verbatim by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, whose nation has the second largest number of troops in Afghanistan. Brown will insist that the war in Afghanistan must continue because of the threat al-Qaeda poses to Britain.
President Obama is expected to announce a massive escalation of the number of American forces in Afghanistan in the near future, while Prime Minister Brown has already pledged additional British forces and is hard at work convincing the rest of Europe to go along with the seemingly endless conflict.
The greatest threat to the United States is the United States.
well in any case i definitely agree that the best way to defeat a small band of transient international terrorist is to put as much of your military in a land-lock mountain range at the center of the largest land mass.
i mean once we have bases all across Afghanistan and can shoot any one who come close. how will al qaeda operate,,, its a good thing no one told them about renting apartments
They don't even come close to the threat posed by those who are keeping the war criminals who waged war of aggression and authorized torture out of prison. Those people are beyond any doubt the greatest threat we have ever faced as a nation. even the Axis forces of WWII weren't in such a position to destroy this nation.
I think the neocon threat to America is our greatest danger. These zealots are similar to the bankers who bankrupted our treasury by gambling and selling bad paper… Yes they made a lot of money for THEMSELVES, and well hey…..snicker…..snicker….let the taxpayers catch the bill….. Now switch the field of endeavor to statecraft…. We see the same wanton proclivities…. Why is a country that is NO threat to America top item for trade of American concessions. Will Obama bribe China with trade concessions that cost American JOBS in these hard times to increase pressure on Iran..?? With the neocon wind at his back he may… This is but one example of pervasive neocon meddling in American bilateral affairs…. ans Russia..?? Again top item, not peace of reductions in our mutual
destructive stockpiles, but Iran and it's nuclear program which is in it's infancy and has produced no weapons..?? Can there be any other answer other than AIPAC..?? As annoying as it is, that America's No.1 welfare queen [Isreal] meddles in American nuclear posture at the exclusion and expense of bilateral war and peace issues between the U.S. and China and the U.S. and Russia it too is dangerous.. Look at the Georgia fiasco to see how…. Notice that neocon ISRAELI's held the top job in defence and State too I believe……The fact that Georgia's defense minister, Davit Kezerashvili, is a former Israeli who is fluent in Hebrew contributed to the aggression is the type of thing I mean..
Georgian minister: Israel should be proud
"The Israelis should be proud of themselves for the Israeli training and education received by the Georgian soldiers," Georgian Minister Temur Yakobashvili said Saturday.
Yakobashvili is a Jew and is fluent in Hebrew. "We are now in a fight against the great Russia," he said, "and our hope is to receive assistance from the White House, because Georgia cannot survive on its own.
This is the sort of meddling that could touch off an nuclear exchange between the U.S. and Russia..
A U.S. Navy warship will head through the Bosphorus on Friday taking relief supplies to Georgia, a spokesman for the U.S. Navy in Europe said.
"The destroyer McFaul is expected to arrive in Georgia via the Black Sea in about two days and will be followed by two other U.S. ships, officials said.
"The USS McFaul is under way now, having taken on humanitarian supplies for the people of Georgia," the spokesman said."
"The White House spokesman says all the Russian forces sent into Georgia after August sixth must leave, and there will have to be negotiations on the long-term status of Russian troops, who have been stationed in Georgia's separatist region of South Ossetia for years as peacekeepers."
We give them billions every year, no matter what they do… Even after they tried to sink the liberty, the aid nkept coming… When we caught them spying on us, [Pollard & others] the aid kept coming.
How much do we give them every year if you count the costs of the wars we fight for THEM, the basses we keep for them…the bribes we pay FOR THEM…HOW MUCH…as we get deeper & deeper
and DEEPER in Debt..??
The real danger is some other reckless adventure of THEIRS gets US in a shootout with Russia, or China….over NOTHING of value to America……
MvGuy couldn't have said it better myself…..sadly most americans are so stupid they have no idea that this tribe is behind all this crap….bribing all the "free" countries into submission.
“President Barack Obama declared that al-Qaeda remains the “greatest threat to the United States’ security.”” If by “United States” he means the U.S. Government, then he could be right. But if he is saying that al-Qaeda is the greatest threat to the security of the American people; with “security” being defined as our physical lives, our liberties, our property and our prosperity; then he is absolutely wrong. No, the greatest threat to the lives, the liberties, the property rights and the prosperity of the American people has always been, and remains to this day, our very own government.