I think al-Qaeda’s decision to engage America in Iraq will rank as one of the greatest strategic blunders of all time. They didn’t have to. Al-Qaeda could have preserved their legend by doing nothing.

Maybe America owes an eternal debt of gratitude to the MSM, academia and the entire liberal establishment for encouraging the Jihad to come out of the woodwork and materialize in Iraq, where, if movies like the Battle of Algiers was to be believed, America would find its graveyard. Instead the AQ was roundly, decisively and publicly beaten into a pulp by the very forces which the MSM was so sure were destined to defeat. Thank you so much MSM. Thank you. Thank you.

But maybe I should add that the MSM almost had us beat; almost stampeded public opinion into turning victory into defeat. Why the MSM didn’t succeed will be an historical problem on the order of why Hitler lost on the Eastern Front. Maybe God does bless America.