{"id":26126,"date":"2011-08-09T08:46:57","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T12:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26126"},"modified":"2011-08-09T08:49:14","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T12:49:14","slug":"how-many-al-qaeda-do-there-have-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26126","title":{"rendered":"How many al Qaeda do there have to be?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another of those non-veterans writing at Veterans Today is Sibel Edmonds who apparently has never had anything to do with veterans according to her biography<\/a> – only marginally less-qualified than senior editor Gordon Duff. Yet, like Duff, the 18-month E-3 TOC Rat, suddenly she’s an expert on military affairs.<\/p>\n

Today she wonders how many actual al Qaeda terrorists we’re fighting<\/a> in Afghanistan. of course, she gives the Taliban a pass, because their numbers would screw up her contention that we’re only battling a few al Qaeda operatives.<\/p>\n

Currently we have less than 200 detainees at Guantanamo most of whom have not been proven guilty of being \u2018Al Qaeda terrorists.\u2019 Let\u2019s be even more generous and count in those detained in other US military prisons like Bagram. Again, we are looking at 500 or so prisoners none of whom having ever been charged; none of whom legally found to be an Al Qaeda terrorist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The key phrase here is “legally found to be an Al Qaeda” because, again, if we were to recognize that without a trial, nothing is certain, she sounds like she has a valid point. <\/p>\n

Then she compares our military expenditures during the Cold War to the wars we’re currently fighting in the middle east. Of course, we also can’t count the war in Iraq as a war against al Qaeda, or the war we’re fighting in Pakistan – even though we were and are actually battling al Qaeda in both of those countries, but for Edmonds’ math to work out, we can’t count fighting al Qaeda outside of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

OK, let’s accept all of Edmonds’ restrictions to arrive at her total of al Qaeda terrorists in Afghanistan. Well, she never mentions an actual number, that would require a little more than just empty blathering. But here’s my question to Sibel; how many do they need? It only took 19 al Qaeda members to inflict more damage and kill more American people than the Japanese did at Pearl Harbor.<\/p>\n

I think it would be more appropriate for Sibel to investigate how many actual veterans work at the web magazine called Veterans Today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another of those non-veterans writing at Veterans Today is Sibel Edmonds who apparently has never had … How many al Qaeda do there have to be?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-shitbags"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}