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Is there any good news here? If there is, it mostly falls in the category of cold comfort. Al-Qaeda's high command in Pakistan is under pressure from the U.S.'s steady campaign of drone strikes, and the jihadists' indiscriminate cruelty has earned more revulsion than support from ordinary...
3. Al-Qaeda is bigger than Osama bin Laden As Obama sends 30,000 more troops to prevent Afghanistan from becoming a haven for terrorists, it is obvious that al-Qaeda has set up franchises to wage offensive war against the U.S. in places like Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. Yemen...
The Yemeni government, under pressure from neighboring Saudi Arabia and the U.S. - and facing internal threats - has recently stepped up operations against al-Qaeda within its borders. With American help, it carried out air strikes Dec. 17 and 24, killing more than 60 militants. But al-Qaeda's affiliate in...
4. Downplaying the threat doesn't help Though Obama learned of it while vacationing in Hawaii soon after the attack was foiled, it took him more than 72 hours to make a live, on-camera comment about the near tragedy. (There is some evidence that Democratic partisans were privately pleading...
But there is a great irony here: villagery is a trope more applicable to those making the accusation than to those being snarked upon. The left-wing blogosphere, at its worst, is a claustrophobic hamlet of the well educated, less interested in meaningful debate than the "village" it mocks. (At...