Can this be true? Is Harry Reid wrong?
Less than a year after his agency warned of new threats from a resurgent al-Qaeda, CIA Director Michael V. Hayden now portrays the terrorist movement as essentially defeated in Iraq and Saudi Arabia and on the defensive throughout much of the rest of the world, including in its presumed haven along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
That’s WaPo today, citing “major gains . . . an increasingly successful campaign.”
Al Q has lost its mojo in the Islamic world, two years after The CIA reported “a propaganda and marketing bonanza [in Iraq] for al-Qaeda, generating cash donations and legions of volunteers.”
Thing is, things happen. Let’s hear it for Bush policies — from the honest people.
Blithe Spirit 