Secretary of State Mike Pompeo uses an Obama-era line to describe al-Qaeda and the current situation in Afghanistan. Organizations and officials claim Pompeo is underestimating their capabilities and influence.
In his last major speech on U.S. counter-terrorism strategy, President Barack Obama spoke before an audience of uniformed military members at Macdill Air Force base in Tampa, Florida and declared al-Qaeda to be"a shadow of its former self," in Afghanistan.
"If you go back and look at the days following 9/11, the objectives set out were pretty clear: to go defeat al-Qaeda, the group that had launched the attack on the United States of America from Afghanistan. And today, al-Qaeda . . . doesn't even amount to a shadow of its former self in Afghanistan," he told The Daily Signal, a news outlet affiliated with the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation."We have delivered," Pompeo added.
Pompeo's remarks also come during debate on how much of a threat the Islamic State in Afghanistan poses to western countries and al-Qaeda's collaboration with them and other militant groups in Afghanistan. The Islamic State militant group emerged out of the al-Qaeda organization in Iraq as a response to the U.S. invasion in 2003.
Bill Roggio and Thomas Joscelyn, senior fellows at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a Washington, D.C. think tank described as nonpartisan and neoconservative, have
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