It's not so much a bowing out as al Qaeda making the best of a bad situation. The core leadership was destroyed in Afghanistan, so the lower-level operatives dispersed to hot spots all around the world to create mini-al Qaedas. Globalization cuts both ways.
Exactly, their little cub scout pack has cut & run.
so the lower-level operatives dispersed to hot spots all around the world to create mini-al Qaedas.
One the the reasons I this the iceberg war, it's being fought in small out of the way places that never really make the news,and by people who last wish is to see their names in the news.
Globalization cuts both ways.
It is the darkside.