Al Qaeda strategy: Get U.S. to overextend military overseas

ABC News discusses the new translation of an al Qaeda strategy document which is currently circulating among DoD and government policy people.

"Abu Bakr Naji, an al Qaeda insider and author of the book, "The Management of Savagery," believes that the 9/11 attacks accomplished what they needed to by forcing the U.S. to commit their military overseas. He says 9/11 forced the U.S. to fall into the "trap" of overextending their military and that "it began to become clear to the American administration that it was being drained."

He says that al Qaeda shouldn't be focused on any more of those kinds of attacks for now.

"The focus is on mid- to small-range targets in the region and not go after big symbolic targets like the Twin Towers," says Will McCants, a fellow at the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, who translated the 268-page document."

Considering the fact that the U.S. Army is going to double the next years request for funds to replace equipment destroyed and worn out in the destructive environment of Iraq, and the Marine Corps is expected to have nearly as much need, then they have pretty much achieved this goal. It will be a decade before our ground troops are brought back to a reasonable level of readiness.