The Huffington Post: Peter Laarman: Al Qaeda's Predictable Return to the Stage: You Can Thank Dick Cheney
Peter Laarman: Al Qaeda's Predictable Return to the Stage: You Can Thank Dick Cheney
"As Dick Cheney, Ken Mehlman, and the Republican noise machine start to lash out at the al Qaeda sympathizers who voted for Ned Lamont, all the people standing in horrendous airport lines today and tossing their shampoo bottles away should remember that they owe their frustration--and their fear--to Cheney and his gang.Many of us have been predicting that the real al Qaeda--not its Connectictut sympathizers--would get back into the game with a vengeance in response to Hezbollah's inadvertent successes in Lebanon. I say inadvertent because there's no evidence that Hezbollah wanted or anticipated the full-scale confrontation with the IDF that has been unfolding to Hezbollah's obvious advantage.
How must it have enraged the Sunnis who lead al Qaeda to see Hezbollah, a Shia-led movement, become the darling of the Arab "street," even drawing many Sunnis into its orbit of fans? Now we have al Qaeda's answer to such humiliation. Hezbollah might be able to thwart the IDF's drones and even tanks, but it's not yet ready to put the world on Red Alert. Al Qaeda can and just did.
