We May Be Quiet Now, But The Storm Is Coming

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9/11 Seven Years Later: U.S. 'Safe,' South Asia In Turmoil
-- McClatchy Newspapers

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Seven years after 9/11, al Qaida and its allies are gaining ground across the region where the plot was hatched, staging their most lethal attacks yet against NATO forces and posing a growing threat to the U.S.-backed governments in Afghanistan and nuclear-armed Pakistan.

While there have been no new strikes on the U.S. homeland, the Islamic insurrection inspired by Osama bin Laden has claimed thousands of casualties and displaced tens of thousands of people and shows no sign of slackening in the face of history's most powerful military alliance.

The insurgency now stretches from Afghanistan's border with Iran through the southern half of the country. The Taliban now are able to interdict three of the four major highways that connect Kabul, the capital, to the rest of the country.

"I am not convinced we are winning it in Afghanistan," Adm. Michael Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, conceded before a congressional committee on Tuesday.

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My Comment: What 9/11 taught us is that what happens on one side of the world, will impact us in the end. It is nice to believe that "they" will leave us alone, but if history is any indication .... they will never leave us alone.

We live in a global world today. Our economics, politics, and means to communicate to each other is within this global village. If one part of the world is on turmoil, this instability will eventually touch us.