] The Bush administration has launched a high-level
] internal review of its efforts to battle international
] terrorism, aimed at moving away from a policy that has
] stressed efforts to capture and kill al Qaeda leaders
] since Sept. 11, 2001, and toward what a senior official
] called a broader "strategy against violent extremism."

Al Q is not an organization. It is a scene.

I guess the name of this MemeStreams topic needs to be changed ...

"What we really want now is a strategic approach to defeat violent extremism. GWOT is catchy, but there may be a better way to describe it, and those are things that ought to be incumbent on us to look at."

A key aspect is likely to be the addition of public diplomacy efforts aimed at winning over Arab public sentiment, and State Department official Paul Simons said at a congressional hearing earlier this month that the "internal deliberative process" was broadly conceived to encompass everything from further crackdowns on terrorist financing networks to policies aimed at curbing the teaching of holy war against the West and other "tools with respect to the global war on terrorism."

MemeStreams, you tool! Use MemeStreams!

"They recognize there's been a vacuum of leadership. There has been a dearth of senior leadership directing this day to day. No one knows who's running this on a day-to-day basis."

Is he talking about Us or Them? Too close to call?

Does this help to clarify?

"No doubt they been destroyed. No doubt they are no longer capable to launch the kind of attacks that they did on all of us a few years ago."

Probably not ...