Ed Morrissey of HotAir points out that the Times of London that we are nearing a "most spectacular" victory against Al Qaeda in Iraq:
After being forced from its strongholds in the west and centre of Iraq in the past two years, Al-Qaeda’s dwindling band of fighters has made a defiant “last stand” in the northern city of Mosul.
A huge operation to crush the 1,200 fighters who remained from a terrorist force once estimated at more than 12,000 began on May 10.
Operation Lion’s Roar, in which the Iraqi army combined forces with the Americans’ 3rd Armoured Cavalry Regiment, has already resulted in the death of Abu Khalaf, the Al-Qaeda leader, and the capture of more than 1,000 suspects.
Morrissey notes:
And what have we won? AQ has sustained an unmitigated defeat in Iraq. They have lost tens of thousands of recruits and fighters, men that would have otherwise volunteered for other missions in which they didn’t have to face the American military. They have lost their supposedly divine endorsement; why would Allah have called them to action, just to see them destroyed by the infidels? The sheer bloodthirstiness of their actions in Iraq have exposed them as drug-driven demons, not righteous jihadists.
The Times of London has this right: the victory in Mosul gives the West the most spectacular victory of the war. Too bad the American media missed it.
I was only able to watch about an hour of news coverage this weekend, but you would think in that time I would have learned something of this. It is becoming clearer and clearer that the American media is no longer doing its job. What news could be more important for Americans to know in both a time of war and in the middle of an election between two candidates who took opposite views of the surge?
Likewise, I had to look to the Strata-Sphere for news that Al Qaeda has given up in Libya.
al-Qaeda has been defeated in Iraq and Lebanon. They failed to make a serious presence in Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. They and their Taliban cousins have been expunged from 75% of Afghanistan. al-Qaeda has been pushed into its final, small sanctuary inside the tribal areas of Pakistan where it is surrounded by 100,000 Pakistani troops to the south and 100,000 US-NATO and Afghan forces to the north.
And today we learn al-Qaeda is surrendering its efforts in Libya after 13 years of trying to overthrow that OPEC nation:
The failure of our media to accurately report facts on the ground is mind-boggling. One is forced to conclude that they don't want Americans getting the wrong message, that we only lose wars when Democrats are in control of the military.
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