Biden's al Qaeda strike reveals an inconvenient truth about America's war on terror
CNN
It manages to both shock and seem entirely, chillingly, predictable.
The killings of key terrorist leaders have become increasingly commonplace, as the attacks they used to plot or inspire dwindle in their impact on the West, and the West's counter-terrorism capability grows.
But taking out the head of al Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, on a balcony in one of the fanciest neighborhoods in Kabul -- a city from which the US withdrew in chaos a year ago -- is no everyday feat. It is a shocking display of what twenty years' experience hunting terrorists has left the US capable of.
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