"Thus the war on terror began in earnest, and in the ensuing years, Islamic terrorists have been unable to mount anything resembling the level of carnage America endured almost ten years ago. There is no question that the forces of terror also endured catastrophic losses in the interim. Many of Al Qaeda's top operatives have been captured or killed, and their safe haven in Afghanistan, along with a sympathetic Ba'athist government in Iraq, no longer exist. As a result, many American leftists now insist that the threat of terror is "overblown," or part of a "politics of fear" strategy to be exploited during election campaigns. Those on the right like to believe the Bush administration dealt international terrorists such a terrible blow that they have yet to recover, based on the aforementioned lack of large-scale terrorist attacks since 2001.
What if both sides are wrong?"
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