<![CDATA[The End Of The Terror War]]>As the intelligence community celebrates al-Qaeda's near-defeat, Ackerman argues that moving from "near" to "total" is simply a matter of how we think about it:

Victory against al-Qaida isn't just a battlefield circumstance, an argument won in Tahrir Square or a missile aimed at an al-Shabaab commander. It's a conscious strategic decision taken by politicians to say: the costs of this campaign are vastly out of proportion to the actual threat posed by al-Qaida, and so it is time to drive those costs down into something proportional.

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