{"id":35374,"date":"2013-05-01T11:40:33","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T15:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35374"},"modified":"2013-05-01T11:40:33","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T15:40:33","slug":"dempsey-on-decimated-al-qaeda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35374","title":{"rendered":"Dempsey on “decimated” al Qaeda"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chief Tango sends us a link to the Daily Caller<\/a> in which the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs tries to explain what the President said about the “decimated” al Qaeda;<\/p>\n

\u201cMy understanding of what the president has said is that the \u2018al-Qaida core\u2019 has been decimated,\u201d Dempsey said at a lunch for reporters sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, the ideology, or the movement, has clearly spread to the Arab peninsula to Horn of Africa to North Africa to West Africa. And the president has been very clear that he recognizes the al-Qaida threat among its affiliates persists. But the al-Qaida core \u2014 that is to say those responsible for the 9\/11 attacks and al-Qaida senior leadership that have heretofore provided their kind of ideological hierarchy \u2014 they have been, they have been decimated.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now I don’t remember the President saying that the “core” of al Qaeda being “decimated”, he said the whole group of terrorists had been “decimated”, which probably coincides with my initial interpretation that decimated means to reduce the enemy’s numbers by 10%. <\/p>\n

I do wonder if the reporters on this particular story had to slide a microphone under the President’s desk in order to hear Dempsey, though.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, that\u2019s where the president is coming from, and I agree with that as a strategy,\u201d he added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No shit, Marty? You agree with the President on something. A red-letter day indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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