akv
04-12-2010, 11:38
In his latest book George Friedman of STRATFOR, asserts Al Qaeda has failed, and while America has focused on the Islamic world the past decade, the Russians have taken advantage of this situation to reassert themselves in Eurasia. He felt Al Qaeda's target was never the US, but demonstrating American weakness in hopes of toppling the secular governments of Islamic countries across the world and replacing them with a unified second " Fundamentalist Caliphate" across the Middle East. America's response in changing the balance of power with Iraq/Afghanistan, plus the attrition imposed on Al Qaeda by US forces, as well as AQ's own brutality towards Muslims, has resulted in alienating the general opinion in these nations, and the security forces of these target Islamic nations now hunting Al Qaeda as well. For these reasons he feels AQ has failed. Obviously we can't ignore the danger of nuclear proliferation,and we have to stay on top of Al Qaeda, however going forward into the 2010's the re-emergence of Russia should be a greater focus for the US.
I thought this was interesting, particularly since he wrote this a while back, and considering all the recent shenanigans in Eastern Europe and over the past year, do folks here agree with the opinion Al Qaeda is in decline and the Russians will be the greater focus this decade?
I thought this was interesting, particularly since he wrote this a while back, and considering all the recent shenanigans in Eastern Europe and over the past year, do folks here agree with the opinion Al Qaeda is in decline and the Russians will be the greater focus this decade?