ReutersAl-Qaeda Is Winning -- Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, The Atlantic
Their ability to land large-scale attacks like that of September 11 might be eroded, but the group has another strategy: using our strengths against us.
A decade after the attacks of September 11, 2001, national security opinion leaders are converging around the ideas that the threat of terrorism has been substantially reduced over the past 10 years, and that al-Qaeda is on its death bed. "Al-Qaeda is sort of on the ropes and taking a lot of shots to the body and the head," White House counterterrorism chief John Brennan told the Associated Press on August 31. Defense secretary Leon Panetta said in July that the United States is "within reach" of "strategically defeating" the jihadi group, and the Washington Post has confirmed that his assessment is shared by many analysts. Commentators in the public sphere are increasingly adopting similar views. But my own research into the group has led me in a different direction: that this emerging consensus doesn't just appear wrong, but obviously wrong. Al-Qaeda isn't anywhere near defeated -- for all our triumphalism, it appears to be winning.
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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials
Mission Accomplished. Finally. Ten years after 9/11, it's time for President Obama to finally call an end to America's adventures abroad. -- Bruce Ackerman, Foreign Policy
A decade of bloody-mindedness -- Mahir Ali, DAWN
Who Really Kept Us Safe After 9/11: The truth about homeland security -- Steve Chapman, Reason
From 9/11 to the Arab Spring -- Fouad Ajami, Wall Street Journal
The Arab Counterrevolution -- Hussein Agha and Robert Malley, New York Review Of Books
Libya's Neighbors Fear Export of Violence as Gaddafi Seeks an Escape -- Vivienne Walt, Time
Finding Hope in Libya -- Nicholas Kristof, New York Times
Revolution in Iran 'a matter of time' -- Ben Farmer, The Telegraph
Who Can’t America Kill? -- Micah Zenko, Council On Foreign Relations
The Bloody War for Southern Thailand -- Richard S. Ehrlich, Asia Sentinel
US response to 9/11 contributed to causes of current debt crisis -- Linda J. Bilmes, Christian Science Monitor
From hyperpower to declining power -- Richard Wike, CNN/Pew Global
An Exorbitant Burden: Why keeping the dollar as the world's reserve currency is a massive drag on the struggling U.S. economy. -- Michael Pettis, Foreign Policy
What the world must do to boost growth -- Tim Geithner, Financial Times
Is Greece About To Default? -- Seeking Alpha
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