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Al Qaeda is suffering an apparently strategic defeat, as the modern version of an Anaconda Plan is driving the terrorists into untenable positions out of cities and into the countryside. So, why do we have to get the news from foreign sources?
For the fate of other terrorists, like the Sadrists in Iraq, and the impact of these developments in Iran and its proxy Hizb-Ullah, see this analysis. As the writer concludes, the overall picture in this theater is likely to be good for the U.S. when President Bush leaves. How his successor handles the good news will be telling about his vision of the U.S.
“The facts of life are conservative.” - Margaret Thatcher
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