Two House committees, the Armed Services and Homeland Security Committees are planning to hold hearings next week on the question of al-Qaeda’s status, questioning President Obama’s claim the group is “on the path to defeat.”
“Al-Qaeda controls more territory than it ever has before, and much of that is in Western Iraq where it has recently captured significant cities,” noted Rep. Ed Royce (R – CA).
President Obama claimed during the State of the Union speech that the parent al-Qaeda group was weakened, while other factions were rising in Northern Africa and Yemen.
Arguably this is the case, but as al-Qaeda’s parent group has embraced factions like Jabhat al-Nusra and al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) as their own, the distinction between proper al-Qaeda and its auxiliaries is becoming less obvious.
Al-Quaeda was the creation of Bush regime, so is the Taliban, on the bases of the enemy of my enemy is my friend and they are still the friends of USG. Actually these are the only friend, only garbage-leftovers that western government have, beside the Neo or old fascism and anarchism in Ukraine. For last twenty years or so the western government been busy in making these pathetic elements hoping for Saudi Arabia to give them a place where they can build a church, meanwhile the only thing “built” is their businesses with Wahhabis and their affiliated terrorism.
Obama knew that statement was a lie, he also knew that he was pandering to the dumb masses who couldn't care less about foreign policies.
More lies by the Liar in Chief. Of course he would claim that Al-Quaeda is "on a path to defeat." To admit the fact that Al-Quaeda is on the rise would be to admit his abject failures in the Middle East, something he is incapable of doing. Obama has lost all credibility by his pattern of outright lies to the American public. His recent threats in his State of the Union speech to circumvent Congress by using his pen and telephone to force his socialist/Marxist agenda down the throats of Americans, is an admission of his failure as a president, an admission that he cannot work with, or compromise with, his political opponents and an admission of his lame duck status.
It's more of an obfuscation than an outright lie, thus more useful to a politician. If you talk about al-Qaeda in its traditional, original terms, as a tight-knit centralized organization, "the Base" or "the Foundation" operating out of Tora Bora in Afghanistan, then it is in severe decline. But the key to understand is that it metastasized, it franchised. The centralized part of al-Qaeda is now its least important aspect. Now you have Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, al-Qaeda in Iraq, the al-Nusra Front in Syria, al-Shabaab in Somalia, al-Qaeda is now everywhere and nowhere, it's like going to war with Kentucky Fried Chicken, good luck with that!