Are We Safer Yet?

The real al-Qaeda--not the fake Iraq one--has regrouped in the remote stretches of Pakistan and Afghanistan, even while the U.S. and its allies have exhausted their military resources and political resources in a ill-conceived war in Mesopotamia. That's what the CIA says. At least the first part of the sentence, anyway.

I don't have a "gut feeling" about anything. But the fact that this country has been so, so badly led for the last six years does make me sick.