Never a shortage of good news coming out of Iraq.
Al-Qaida is in Iraq to stay. It's not a conclusion the White House talks about much when denouncing the shadowy group, known as al-Qaida in Iraq, that used the U.S. invasion five years ago to develop into a major killer.
The militants are weakened, battered, perhaps even desperate, by most U.S. accounts. But far from being "routed," as Defense Secretary Robert Gates claimed last month, they're still there, still deadly active and likely to remain far into the future, military and other officials told The Associated Press.
It's really amazing how we turned a contained country with no ties to the terrorist threat against us into a breeding ground for those very same people. What a brilliant foreign policy we have.
