The Biggest Testament to Our Sorry-Ass Foreign Policy

Is that we have a group like Al Queda who is basically a murderous gang of thugs with a clear M.O.: pick weak Muslim countries and try to spark chaotic violence through murder and mayham. Their hope: all civilized people and armies will eventually pack up and leave, allowing them the remnants to install Sharia Law to govern otherwise failed states.

It's the same story from Afghanistan, to Waziristan, to Somalia, to Iraq, and to Lebanon. How we can't create a band of allies to fight this scourge is truly pathetic. I understand certain countries have at various time uses for Al Queda - we did against the Soviets in Afghanistan, the Saudis have at times used them as a bulwark against their own internal discord, Iran is using them right now in Iraq to hamper US interests, the Taliban used them to run Afghanistan...but that we don't have a wider consensus to get rid of these guys is a testament to pretty enormous failure of expressing our ideas and winning over friends.