All This For 500 Al Queda?

underpaidgenius:

David Sanger and Mark Mazetti, New Estimate of Strength of Al Qaeda Is Offered

American intelligence agencies believe that there are most likely fewer than 500 members of the group in a region [Afghanistan and Pakistan’s tribal areas]  where the United States has poured nearly 100,000 troops.

This is proof that the US government is cracked. We are spending billions every month to wage a ‘war’ — in reality, to attempt to suppress a terrorist movement — than comprises a few hundred hard core radicals.

Afghanistan is not a ‘country’ in any sense, and neither is Pakistan, really. We are wrestling with shadows.

Insanity.

Sociopathy.

I’ve been saying for years that Al Qeada is a joke and that we have little (if anything) to truly fear from these guys.  The USG has us as scared of a handful of idiots in the desert as we were of the Soviet Union.  This is absurd and our leaders should be ashamed.

There are about a thousand things we could be better spending hundreds of billions of dollars on that would save more lives right here inside America.

Where are we going to get the money to pay for free health care for all Americans? I’m pretty sure ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan would help pay for it.  That way my step-dad doesn’t have to die of the cancer that is killing him.

But no, let’s keep on being scared of nothing so we can keep the funds flowing into the military industrial complex that runs our government.

Sociopathy.