Oof

Belmont Club » The First Glimmer: "The “ten ships” of the War on Terror — the enemy’s center of gravity — were never in Afghanistan. It was always in the source of ideology, money and recruits that fueled it. In a word it was in the Middle East and in the Islamic ideology that motivated the terror. That is now painfully clear, even if the administration won’t admit it. But they have as much as done by their actions.

The CIA has announced it is moving from Afghanistan to the Middle East and North Africa. The DOD is talking about military options in Syria. And why heck, even the NYT is worried about the fires in that region raging out of control.

Nobody says “Detroit is alive and al-Qaeda is dead” any more. It’s not funny these days. Not even to the NYT."