Recently I wrote about a newly released study from the West Point Combating Terrorism Center. The CTC just released documents associated with a study on al—Qaeda. One of them was a letter described here. As I read the letter, I couldn't help but remember the comments bemoaning President Bush and his war on terror from the likes of Richard Clarke, "I think he's done a terrible job on the war against terrorism."   Michael Scheuer wrote an entire book called Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror. Hillary Clinton derided the President at Berkeley last month, making a joke about missing the tallest guy in Afghanistan, and attacking his management of the war on terror. To his credit, Paul Pillar gets it right: 'Al Qaeda, although still a danger, has been badly damaged by the measures taken over the past two and a half years.'  Although as Stephen Hayes of the Weekly Standard points out in his article Paul Pillar Speaks, Again Mr. Pillar seems to...(Read Full Post)