Blame it on Al-Qaeda!

The use of the Al-Qaeda label varies a lot depending on the politician, the party and the needs of the moment. Right, this group is linked to the attack on the USS Cole and 9-11 to cite a few misdeeds. My sense is that it that the original organization has been pretty much crushed and should be seen as one among many fundamentalist, terrorist movements that are the by product of local tyranny, foreign intervention or lack thereof, and foreign occupation. If these groups are not adorned with the Al-Qaeda trade-mark, another one can be placed on them, their chiefs comes and go and there is no way to eradicate this form of resistance or insurgency that is so fluid and so self-regenerating.

The only way to minimize their nefarious influence is to “walk the talk” in places like Palestine, quit supporting tyrannies like the one in Egypt, for example, and get the hell out of Iraq and Afghanistan. As long as we keep that “brand” alive, Osama bin Laden will continue to laugh at us, inside his grave, of course.