Kamis, 13 April 2017

Crisis Watch: USA Falls to Second Place!

We’re just not Enemy Number One for al Qaeda and its franchises anymore. Oh, Sunni jihadis still seek opportunities, great or small, to strike Americans, but we’ve clearly lost ground in the Great Satan Sweepstakes. The anti-American rhetoric remains, but most al Qaeda affiliates now wage local struggles or concentrate on opposing the new top …

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