“But a common, though unspoken, assumption is simply that so far Western intelligence services, law enforcement, and the U.S. military have so infiltrated, thwarted, scattered, or killed off enough jihadists that for the moment the Islamists no longer possess the ability to kill thousands more Westerners.“
Those three words in bold... cannot be understated.
5 posted on 07/06/2007 5:43:58 AM PDT by johnny7
("But that one on the far left... he had crazy eyes")