Dirt Nap

Upper management positions in Al-Qaida continue to be hazardous to the occupants (as well as being in Pakistan).  And, once again, it looks like we have the U.S. Air Force to thank:

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, says al-Rahman was killed Aug. 22 in the Pakistani tribal region of Waziristan. That's the same day a US drone strike in Waziristan.

So why is it critical to keep taking out senior leadership in terrorist groups?  Becuase they are the ones most capable of planning and directing terrorist events.  Sadly, there is no lack of morons who will wear explosives and kill themselves for the cause--it's the ones who are capable of planning the operations and logistics to carry out such attacks that are more difficult to come by.  Hence, every time Hell welcomes a new member, it makes Al-Qaida's (and every other gathering of terrorist  ass clowns) attempts to kill Americans and our Allies that much more difficult.

It still doesn't get to the root cause of Islamic extremism, but it does blunt the effect. Remember, unless there is a Reformation in Islam, it will not end well for anyone--there are over 1.3 billion Muslims in the world, and if only 10% of them are extremists, that means there are 130 million people who want to enslave or kill the rest of us. (A Pew poll on Islam conducted in June 2010 found that, depending on the country surveyed, between 11% to 59% of Muslims surveyed identified with fundamentalists.)

Al-Qaida? We have an express lane set up just for you!