"Going back a decade or so to when Bush launched the war on terror, which I see as a consequence of or at least highly congruent with the Cheney-Powell-Rumsfeld-Wolfowitz (CPRW) defense strategy, the terrorist numbers are also iffy. The Wikipedia article on al-Qaeda says that in 2002 there was a core membership of 170. But how many trained fighters were there in its camp?But now...
In the mid-80s, there were “thousands” of mujahideen in Afghanistan who might be considered as possible terrorist members when that war wound down. One source says tens of thousands. In Iraq, al-Zarqari’s contingent was estimated at 1,000-3,000 fighters."
"The CIA says that ISIS has 20,000-31,500 fighters. Iraqi sources say 100,000. Other estimates are 20,000-50,000."That's a lot more, and it doesn't include al Qaeda affiliates.
15,000 foreign fighters join the terrorists in Syria and Iraq. Great strategy. Fighters are from 80 countries. The war on terror might be the greatest disaster in US history.
1,000 foreign fighters head to Syria each month to join ISIS, undeterred by air strikes.
Troops to be banned from paying for sex in South Korea? This is doomed to fail.
More US troops committed suicide than were killed in war in 2012 and 2013.
Pentagon tries to quash Foxnews interview with SEAL who supposedly killed bin Laden.
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