The only way to protect our citizens at home is to go on the offense against the enemy across the world, so we will remain on the offense until the terrorists are defeated and this fight is won.Guess what folks, he meant it. Under the cover of the regional conflict between Somalia and Ethiopia, the United States has conducted two air strikes against suspected al Qa'eda operatives.
Hundreds of Islamists have sought refuge in southern Somalia's dense jungle and thick bush, where Ethiopian and Somali troops have chased them in a swift offensive that ran them out of their strongholds, including Mogadishu, before the New Year.Intelligence officials from agencies in the U.S., Ethiopia and Kenya say some Somali Islamists have conspired to hide al Qa'eda members, including individuals suspected in the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and a 2002 hotel bombing on the Kenyan coast.
I hope they were right, and I hope that the raids successfully eliminated terrorists who would plot further attacks against innocent life. I'm all for eliminating terrorists. But something about the timing here disturbs me, in a wag-the-dog sort of way, coming as it does right before the president is scheduled to unveil his *new way forward* for Iraq.
Getting pushback on troop buildups in Iraq? Take the fight to a third country!
