“Reconstituted”? Neither was ever destroyed. This statement indicates that Milley severely underestimates the jihad threat, and will almost certainly be as incompetent in dealing with it at home as he was in Afghanistan.
“Milley: ‘A Reconstituted Al Qaeda or ISIS With Aspirations to Attack the United States Is a Very Real Possibility,’” by Susan Jones, CNS News, September 28, 2021:
(CNSNews.com) – “It is clear, it is obvious, the war in Afghanistan did not end on the terms we wanted, with the Taliban now in power in Kabul,” Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday….
Milley made the remarks in his opening statement before the Senate Armed Services Committee:
And we must remember that the Taliban was and remains a terrorist organization, and they still have not broken ties with Al Qaeda. I have no illusions who we are dealing with….
A reconstituted Al Qaeda or ISIS with aspirations to attack the United States is a very real possibility. And those conditions, to include activity in ungoverned spaces, could present themselves in the next 12 to 36 months.
That mission will be much harder now, but not impossible, and we will continue to protect the American people.
Kashyap says
Yet, US seems to treat this development as not serious shocking many civilized sane human beings.
mortimer says
Robert Spencer’s analysis of the naivety of Milley is most probable. Milley is speaking truthfully now. He actually believes that, and thus, he is unprepared to do his job of fighting terrorism.
If you do not understand the enemy, then you cannot fight him effectively. Sun Tzu said, “You will be defeated in every battle.”
An unprepared general is an extremely dangerous general who will sacrifice his people for no gain. The NATO personnel who fought and died in Afghastlistan have fought and died in vain. They have been betrayed by their generals … pompous, political, yes-man blow-hards like Milley.
The sooner Milley is fired the better. Milley must take the blame for handing Afghanistan to the Taliban on a golden platter.
commonsense says
I wonder – does ANYONE high up in the U.S. military actually understand the extent and permanence of the jihad threat?
James Lincoln says
commonsense,
Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn got it, the current crop in the fraudulent Biden Admin do not.
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/02/flynn-if-we-cant-tackle-enemy-doctrines-that-call-for-our-domination-or-extinction-we-arent-going-to-destroy-their-jihadis
mortimer says
Yes, Flynn gets it. He should be training future generals and so should Major Stephen Coughlin, the author of “TO OUR GREAT DETRIMENT”:
IGNORING WHAT EXTREMISTS SAY ABOUT JIHAD.
commonsense says
Thanks, Doc, for the link. I may have even read the article when it first appeared on JW, more than four years ago. But I don’t remember it, and didn’t realize that Flynn’s grasp of the situation was that good. I still rankle at his use of the term “radical Islam,” but he can be forgiven for that. What a tragedy that he has been so demonized and his views ignored.
Infidel says
No, he doesn’t: I’ve not seen anywhere where he thinks that islam is a threat. If anything, he thinks that White Rage is the issue, and today, it came out that he thinks of Epoch Times and Newsmax as terrorist outfits
He’s one of many in the military chain of command who needs to go
gravenimage says
Thanks, James and Mortimer.
commonsense says
And thanks, Mortimer, for your reference to Major Coughlln, about whom I was unaware.
gravenimage says
Milley: ‘Reconstituted Al Qaeda or ISIS with aspirations to attack the US is a very real possibility’
……………….
Yes–they never went away.
Terry Gain says
Now that Biden has given Afghanistan back to Islamic terrorists, with the approval of Robert Spencer, of course the chances that all Qaeda and ISIS will attack America will improve.