US won''t stop until Al-Qaeda "destroyed" - Biden

by lexie Sun Sep 11, 2011 5:10 pm

Politics 9/11/2011 11:51:00 PM

US won''t stop until Al-Qaeda "destroyed" - Biden

WASHINGTON, Sept 11 (KUNA) -- Those inside the Pentagon during the Sept. 11 attacks 10 years ago knew they were witnesses to "a declaration of war by stateless actors bent on changing our way of life," US Vice President Joe Biden said at the Defense Department during a 9/11 anniversary ceremony.
But the US military will not stop until Al-Qaeda is "ultimately destroyed," he said.
Members of Al-Qaeda "believed that these horrible acts of terror directed against innocents could buckle our knees, could bend our will, could begin to break us and break our resolve," the Vice President said. "But they did not know us".
Instead, the attacks galvanized "the 9/11 generation," he added.
"Two million, eight hundred thousand of that 9/11 Generation moved to join our military since the attacks on 9/11, to finish the war begun here that day, " Biden said. "And they joined knowing that they were in all likelihood going to be deployed in harm's way, and in many cases deployed multiple times in Afghanistan, Iraq and other dangerous parts of the world".
These volunteer soldiers took on responsibilities once reserved only for those with considerably more seniority -- "responsibilities that extended beyond the base or the battlefield to the politics of Afghanistan, to the politics of Iraq, to the economies of those countries, and to the development tasks that ultimately will lay the groundwork for us to leave behind stable countries that will not threaten us," Biden said.
Along with the intelligence and law enforcement communities, "they relentlessly took the fight to Al Qaeda and its affiliates," he said. "They were prepared to follow (Osama) bin Laden to the heck's gate, if necessary. And they got him".
"But we will not stop -- you will not stop -- until Al Qaeda is not only disrupted, but completely dismantled and ultimately destroyed," Biden said.
Al Qaeda and bin Laden never imagined that the 3,000 people who lost their lives on Sept. 11, 2001, "would inspire three million to put on the uniform and harden the resolve of 300 million Americans," he said. "They never imagined the sleeping giant they were about to awaken".

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