So many details now emerging that the previous administration was vastly over stating the so called "rollback" of AQ, cherry picking data taken from the Bin Laden raid and not giving the full story.
What the whole picture likely was and is: AQ is more powerful then ever. While ISIL grabs the headlines AQ has expanded its network. Thousands strong in Syria, Yemen, Libya and Somalia, and growing in the Sinai. Still locked at the hip with the Taliban and firmly entrenched in the no go regions of Afghanistan and constantly holding Pakistan under the threat of terrorism. The previous administration constantly rolled with laughingly low numbers of AQ in Afghanistan while the Pentagon would announce 4 and 5x the number of AQ killed in a given timeframe (possibly the guilty by being in the same village drone strikes?).
In essence, the previous administration put forth a totally false narrative on the demise of AQ to garner political platitudes and reelection.
In other news I have mixed feelings about the report that Trump may go ahead with the stalled sale of F16's to Bahrain and smart bombs to the Saudi's.
But this weird paradox arises from the whackadoo foreign policy of the previous regime. Which was to sell the Saudi's billions of dollars in weapons, ostensibly green light their war in Yemen, while withholding smart bomb technology because they were concerned about collateral damage aka civilian deaths in Yemen from dumb bombs.
