Marc Rodrigues:
> All kidding aside, there's been a racist attack launched against students
from an alternative high school in Brooklyn because they didn't want to be
part of military recruitment. I thought the second part of this would
especially be enjoyed by someone of DP's ilk.
>
> From the NY Daily News
>
> Payback
>
> If the kids at Bushwick High School needed a reminder of what the military
is all about, they got it in the remote-control zapping Sunday of six Al
Qaeda operatives in Yemen. Surely the students remember that it was Al Qaeda
that tore a hole in our city and is the target of the U.S. war against
terrorism.
>
> Among the six blasted to bits in their car on the Saudi Arabian peninsula
was Abu Ali, a top lieutenant in Osama Bin Laden's evil empire. Good
riddance. Ali was a prime suspect in the 2000 bombing of the destroyer Cole
that killed 17 American sailors . . .
>
> Al Qaeda has started asserting itself in Yemen: A French supertanker was
bombed off the coast last month, and an American helicopter was fired upon
last week. Now the U.S. is asserting itself there, too. Yemen, Bin Laden's
ancestral country, is believed to be the new hideout for his terrorists.
They have been put on notice. Six down. More to go. But go they will.
>
> All it took was an unmanned Predator drone and one Hellfire missile to
send an unambiguous message: You cannot run. You cannot hide. We will not
rest. We will get you.
Lacks my signature touch, but otherwise I've got no real problem with it. The al-Q operatives that were hit were a military target -- no block of houses destroyed, hotels ripped apart, refugee camps strafed; simply some thugs in a car with, apparently, explosives, wiped out. While I don't think this is the sole way to go, in this instance I see nothing wrong.
Al-Q is at war with us. You may not believe it, accept it, want to deal with it, or wish to change the subject. But they are out there planning new attacks, minus these six.
DP