{"id":9796,"date":"2015-06-17T01:56:42","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T01:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9796"},"modified":"2015-06-17T01:56:42","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T01:56:42","slug":"drone-kills-another-al-qaeda-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9796","title":{"rendered":"Drone kills another al-Qaeda leader"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Before we get too excited about news regarding the death of an al-Qaeda terrorist leader, let&#8217;s ponder the obvious.<\/p>\n<p>Someone else is going to emerge to take this guy&#8217;s place.<\/p>\n<p>And someone will emerge once we eliminate the new terrorist leader.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;ll go on and on and on.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2015\/06\/16\/us-targets-leader-al-qaeda-in-yemen-with-cia-drone-strike\/<\/p>\n<p>A drone strike killed Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula leader Nasir al-Wuhayshi. It&#8217;s been called the most significant death of a terrorist leader since the May 2011 commando raid killed Osama bin Laden.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s good news. The more leaders we kill, the fewer of them are left to take up arms against us.<\/p>\n<p>Does it mean we&#8217;ve\u00a0wiped out\u00a0the recruiting pool? Hardly.<\/p>\n<p>What we&#8217;re seeing, though, is the consequence of President George W. Bush&#8217;s declaration of war against international terrorism in the wake of the 9\/11 attacks. It&#8217;s a war that will go on long after those who are reading these words are gone. It&#8217;s a war we must fight, given that the terrorists started it with their heinous attack on us in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>The question remaining though is: How will we know\u00a0when we&#8217;ve finished the fight?<\/p>\n<p>The answer remains as elusive today as it was when this fight began.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before we get too excited about news regarding the death of an al-Qaeda terrorist leader, let&#8217;s ponder the obvious. Someone else is going to emerge to take this guy&#8217;s place. And someone will emerge once we eliminate the new terrorist leader. It&#8217;ll go on and on and on. http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2015\/06\/16\/us-targets-leader-al-qaeda-in-yemen-with-cia-drone-strike\/ A drone strike killed Al-Qaeda in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9796\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Drone kills another al-Qaeda leader<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[97,222,428,1458,3458,5177,5323],"class_list":["post-9796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-911-attacks","tag-al-qaeda","tag-aqap","tag-drone-strikes","tag-osama-bin-laden","tag-war-on-terror","tag-yemen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}