Bruce Riedel, the Afghanistan-Pakistan policy coordinator on Obama’s National Security Council, stresses that Al Qaeda's growing cooperation with the Afghan Taliban, the Pakistani Taliban, Lashkar-e-Taiba, and other like-minded groups is the most dangerous development in the effort to reduce global terrorism. “The notion that you can somehow selectively resolve the Al Qaeda problem while ignoring the larger jihadist sea in which [Al Qaeda] swims has failed in the past and will fail in the future,” Riedel argues.
奥巴马国家安全委员会阿富汗－巴基斯坦政策协调员布鲁斯·里德尔强调指出，基地组织与阿富汗塔利班、巴基斯坦塔利班、虔诚军和其他志同道合的组织越来越广泛的合作是打击全球恐怖主义中出现的最危险的倾向。 里德尔认为，“认为在忽视为[基地组织]提供土壤的总体圣战环境的同时能够以某种方式选择性解决基地组织问题的观念无论在过去和将来都不会取得成功。”