Al-Qaeda, if anything, has been remarkably consistent. IF the US Media would do it’s job, Americans would know that Iraq was the first step in a world-wide caliphate. Al-Qaeda was drawn to GWB’s bait precisely because it was their game plan from day one. Afghanistan is a giant nothing. Iraq has oil, a sea port, infrastructure, etc.

The sad fact for American liberal wiener-heads is that GWB has won in Iraq. He’s pulled it off. The left calls Bush an “idiot”, yet Bush has won Iraq. This victory won’t do for Obama as there’s no way he can fold himself into it and bask in the success. Barack chose to align himself with the far-left anti-war crowd betting on American failure. American success has him scrambling in recovery mode.

Again the American press refuses to report intelligently on Al-Qaeda. America is quite happy to see Al-Qaeda holed up in the mountains again, as Afghanistan is of no strategic value and Pakastani nukes are easy enough to guard. GWB has not only killed their fighters, but more importantly he has broken their financial network. Al-Qaeda leadership can boast and make threats via video, but they can’t actually do much. GWB, by enlisting world support, has reduced Al-Qaeda to “all hat and no cattle” – in Texan-speak, i.e. just a shell of it’s former self.

Barack can play a liberal slight of hand exercise with the adoring media where he feints action against terrorism but blames Iraq for lack of troops, squandered opportunity, lack of international goodwill, etc. This might be enough to get him elected.