Editors:

Messrs Jobb and Hudson claim not to recognize our enemies or our success dealing with them.  Our enemies were the Jihadi terror groups and the Governments that supported them.

We took out the Afghan Taliban government in a few weeks.  We thereby disrupted al Qaeda, perpetrators of 9/11.  Today they only rarely emerge from a cave to give a grainy video to the Media.

The Jihadi sponsoring governments of Libya, Pakistan, and Syria have retreated since we took out the Taliban.

We also destroyed the terror sponsoring government of Saddam as quickly.  Some Ba’athist thugs he employed remain active, but as the new Iraqi army has gained experience, local people who can recognize easily their old enemies, the remnant has become less effective.

Saddam sponsored Abu Abbas, who hijacked the Achille Lauro cruise ship.  He also hosted Abu Nidal, jihadists involved in the Munich Olympic terror and the Lockerbie explosion.  These groups no longer exist.

Iran sponsors Hezbollah, the largest remaining Jihadi terror faction, but we have Iran surrounded.  Their prospect looks bleak if we persevere.

We have done all this while losing fewer military personnel than the number of civilians killed on 9/11, a great success. 

John den Dulk
Candidate for Congress
Ninth District
510-704-1644 (office, Berkeley)
510-547-5739(home, Oakland)