Friday, January 07, 2005
Terrorist Humanitarians
Bill Roggio at the fourth rail comments on the arrival of members of Islamist terror groups in Banda Aceh, an Indonesian city devastated by the tsunami, in his recent post The Enemy in Aceh. Mr. Roggio points out that the media refuses to acknowledge that groups such as those mentioned in his post are al Qaeda affiliates.
The media consistently downplays the operational relationship between al Qaeda and its regional affiliates, sabotaging efforts to prosecute the war on a global scale. An admission that the enemy is greater than just al Qaeda would provide ammunition to the Neoconservative view on the reach and scope of al Qaeda, and force liberals to recognize the magnitude of the threat arrayed against us. As the liberal vision on the War on Terror is one of policing and disengagement from military action, the operational relationships between the various groups of the International Islamic Front are suppressed.
