It's working...

[Alcon]

With all respect, I have two questions:

1. If this attack wasn't organised, would you be trumpeting that Al-Qaeda has been so decapitated that it is incapable of attacking, and thus our efforts must continue in this area?

2. If the attack had gone through, would you be demanding expansion of these programmes?

[Alcon]

The invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq which have decapitated the leadership of Al Qaeda and ground down the manpower of the Jihadist movement, the Patriot Act, the signals monitoring and wiretap programs, and the other domestic security measures, all of it.  It's working.  The enemy just played its best card, and that card wasn't good enough.

Does all that spinning make you dizzy?

You can't "spin" the facts.

There is a difference between facts and subjective extrapolations from those facts.