Exactly, Charlie, not only female, but also elderly. Not just grown up, but unlike you, also grown wise. Old enough to remember what I believed were positive advances in U.S. society, before your Alabama barstool coward puppet was old enough to begin his killing sprees as the truly evil Cheney was anointed to pull his strings.

another reference to how old, to what gender. Another Bush slam. Repeated garbage, over and over.
Only the truly ignorant nor perhaps as I suggested elsewhere, fail to read and learn. On thread after thread on this forum you've shown again and again you do neither. But instead remain exceptionally naive or maybe just stupid.
Should I add naive to gay, arrogant, politically inactive, bigoted, and religiously fanatic? Oh, and a "maybe stupid" from someone all offended I've brought her mental stability into question. You're a hypocrite, Cass and a blatant one.
Unfortunately, you fail to note both of Dubya's invasions and occupations continue to grow worse, not better.
I don't agree and I actually pay attention. You don't.
Most of the U.S. public has long since turned against both he and his occupations.
Would this be the same public where only 7% can find Iraq on a map? 17% when it's clearly marked. The war and this particular war was the front burned issue in the 2004 election. Bush won handily. The public spoke then, there is one Commander in Chief, not 300 million. You've a degree in history and you're not even aware of common government structure...and question why I raise stability?
Bush will leave office, disgraced and considered even among some poor past presidents as the worst in U.S. history
By morons.
But this topic is about al Qaeda.
Finally! Halfway thru and she gets to the meat. Carry on, Cassie.
A factor that prior to the invasion and occupation of Iraq didn't exist there. But did in both
Pakistan and Afghanistan under the leadership of Osama bin Laden and his followers including the Taliban. What ever happened to that Texas cowboy's claim like a wanted poster from an old Western movie "dead or alive?" Could it have been
more politically expedient to have Osama alive? A ghostly enemy to be used for fear mongering and military industrial complex
spending that has trained the treasury, created massive debt while lining the personal pockets of Bush, Cheney and a myriad
of cronies. Maybe even yours Charlie?
More expedient to have him alive? Like killing or capturing him changes the landscape? And, the paragraph started well with the topic being "al-Qaeda" and then by the end the topic is again..."charlie". Another stability question comes to mind here, let's try to focus.
You overestimate your intelligence and abilities.
Cassie.......oh casssssiiieeeeeeee.......focus.
Even your feeble attempts at personal insults hardly bother me.
Good, then we can stay on topic correct? However, they're not feeble attempts as each one receives a scathing response. Oh...you care.
The Taliban is no longer in power. OBL is probably dead or in a cave hidden. Zawahiri talks from a sketchy tape recorder inside a tent. Al-Qaeda has been decimated, piecemealed. They organize or try to in the Pakistan mountains, they no longer enjoy open training facilities and it shows, many of their recent attacks in Europe and Iraq have been sloppy and ineffective.
They have lost Afghainstan, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia. They're wanted by scores of nations. France finally is sendng more troops to AF and building a permanent base in the Gulf(the Iranians are a tad upset). Look at the planet, Cass. Freedom and self-determination is the force behind humanity today. The ex-Soviet States such as Bulgaria and The Ukraine. Iraq and Afghanistan.
Finally, put yourself in the Taliban or Iranian Presidential chair this am, how's it lookin?
Seriously...are you happy about your current situation status report?
Cass....have you ever looked at what OBL wants, why we were attacked?