His discussion of Operations Plans is where this begins. It is taken seriously. Its specific. It snakes three states and a time. One reason an official says were not . I in panic mode about this is core al qaeda is a great distance away. It has a difficulty organizing and is not a top t what is the most is the lone wolf, home grown problem. Someone with a gun going to a polling place, motivated by all stuff . I online. In terms of this threat it was specific and disseminated. The reason officials think its not a three alarm fire. Dickerson the reason is the ability to carry out an operation is degraded the last three years from a stacks of al qaeda. This is a key operation with operatives. The question is the ability to carry out the plans. People think thats limited. Dickerson fran, what happens on the Homeland Security end with this operation . What can be done what . I is being done . First of all, john, they have a dent phid over a dozen operatives that have been deployed. They hav
Time, money, resources, life the United States engaged in over the past decade. Trying to make iraq into a jeffersonian democracy, theyre not any Thomas Jeffersons over there. There are not even any al capones over there, if you look at the results from yesterday. I dont think the book stores of arabic translations of the federalist papers. It raises fundamental questions which is what youre getting at, about the idea of being ambitious. About the idea of changing the dna of countries. The wisdom or lack of it of having gotten ambitious in iraq. And then the situation between israelis and palestinians. Beyond questions of tactically, whats happened at the border. It shows how neither side, neither the palestinians or israel has any strategy for dealing with their situation. What we have is essentially violence and the absence of a strategy for either side. David ignatius. Weve been saying for some time, weve been noting for some time that their there are unique opportunities in the mid