Journal Article “Why Al-Qaeda Just Won’t Die” Cited in Breitbart News
Jihadism is Growing Again Not Dying
by Warner Todd Hudson
Despite Obama’s claim that we have al Qaeda on the run, attacks by al Qaeda and other global jihadis have taken a sharp swing upwards says Sebastian Gorka in a recent article and interview. As events in Iraq and Syria demonstrate, the US policy of focusing or organizations and individuals as opposed to the ideology of jihad has empowered our enemies.
Jihadism is Growing Again Not Dying
by Warner Todd Hudson
Despite Obama’s claim that we have al Qaeda on the run, attacks by al Qaeda and other global jihadis have taken a sharp swing upwards says Sebastian Gorka in a recent article and interview. As events in Iraq and Syria demonstrate, the US policy of focusing or organizations and individuals as opposed to the ideology of jihad has empowered our enemies.
Dr. Gorka, the Major General Horner Distinguished Chair of Military Theory at the Marine Corps University, and National Security editor with Breitbart.com, has just published a piece at The Journal of International Security Affairs in an effort to explain “Why Al-Qaeda Just Won’t Die,” and in the piece the evidence points to a resurgent global Jihad movement, not one being rolled back.
Gorka’s points to the fact that the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, America’s highest intelligence officer told Congress that al Qaeda now has a base of operations in 12 nations across the world.
“By way of comparison,” Gorka writes, “in 2001, when we started the war against al-Qaeda, it had operations centers in just one country: Afghanistan.”
In a recent interview with radio host John Batchelor, Gorka pointed out the main misconception that the west has in this war against global jihad. It isn’t “just” al Qaeda, it isn’t single leaders like bin Laden that we are fight ing. It is, rather, an entrenched ideology.