Despite What You May Have Heard....

Al-Qaeda is being defeated. StrategyPage has an interesting breakdown of why this is the case. It includes pointing out that there is increased media competition in America that has helped the administration maintain its resolve in fighting this war. At surface, I found that to be a dubious claim, being a person who is deeply suspicious of mainstream media's biases. But as the article goes on to say, the competition is being supplied by small independent internet suppliers like Drudge Report who can cheaply reach millions of people with unfiltered content. So instead of having CBS, or even CNN control the images and stories that are coming out of Iraq and Afghanistan like the 'good' old days in Vietnam and Mogadishu, the 'silent majority' which has consistently back-boned the administration's posture has all sorts of sources of information from which to draw their opinions on the matters that concern them.