Juan,
What you are saying is relatively true, but not absolutely. Leadership still requires talent and everyone has varying degrees of it. Zarqawi was a ruthless, cunning and efficient leader. His successor, Al-Masri was not nearly so--AQI's downturn was, in part, due to his less successful leadership abilities--trust me, I dealt with it for years. Yes, the organizations will survive, perhaps even thrive. In the case of al-Baghdadi, we were probably sorry in retrospect that we killed AAM, but yes it does matter--both ways. Incrementally, but some...
Juan,
What you are saying is relatively true, but not absolutely. Leadership still requires talent and everyone has varying degrees of it. Zarqawi was a ruthless, cunning and efficient leader. His successor, Al-Masri was not nearly so--AQI's downturn was, in part, due to his less successful leadership abilities--trust me, I dealt with it for years. Yes, the organizations will survive, perhaps even thrive. In the case of al-Baghdadi, we were probably sorry in retrospect that we killed AAM, but yes it does matter--both ways. Incrementally, but some...