Sorry for the repost. I didn't read ahead before posting.
Someone besides the President gets it.
Terror threat 'could last decades'
From correspondents in London
January 16, 2007
BRITISH Home Secretary John Reid predicted today that the struggle against al-Qaeda could last for as long as the Cold War.
Questioned about the threat from Islamist terrorists, Mr Reid told MPs in the lower chamber of parliament the House of Commons: "My own estimate is that this will last probably as long as the Cold War did.
"We now know that the first al-Qaeda-related plot was in the year 2000. Since then, the threat has grown.
"It is serious and it will, I believe, be with us for a generation," Mr Reid said, echoing Prime Minister Tony Blair's assessment of the terror threat.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21066668-1702,00.html