Building the predicate for pulling out...Barack “You Lie” Obama cut-and-run ploy.
al Qaeda has always been dispersed in several countries worldwide. If you see numbers drop in one place you can bet they are recombining elsewhere, as they did when the pressure was on in Afghanistan and Iraq and they headed to the Horn of Africa. Give current US policy they are probably having a field day constructing training camps in South America with the help of Hugo Chavez and friends, and are probably still recovering in Africa after our last hunting expeditions there.
Define “major” and “signs.”