Obama senior lawyer says “military pursuit of al-Qaida” should end soon

Because, you see, they are so severely damaged that we will soon reach a “tipping point” after which military action against them will no longer be necessary, and local police can handle it.

This astounding manifestation of an overconfidence of Baghdad Bob proportions, or else of a capitulation attempting to disguise itself as a victory, comes from November 30, but has not been widely reported. It is bitterly ironic coming at a time when al-Qaeda is “carving out its own state” in Mali, isoperating with apparent impunity in Libya, and its friends and allies the Taliban are on the offense in Afghanistan and Pakistan.