Is the West winning the war against its enemies?
| 10:01 UK time, Wednesday, 6 October 2010
ÌýThree of today's big talking points: the would be Times Square bomber gets life in prison, are arrested in France and a US drone attack in Pakistan thought to have terror links in Europe.
'All this points to a picture of unsuccessful would-be jihadis on the one hand, and the dramatically improved policing and intelligence sharing that Europe, the US, and other states have developed since 9/11,' writes Monitor.Ìý'None of this means that some day an attacker won't get through the net. As the old cliché goes, a terrorist only has to get lucky once. But given the scores of young Muslim men who have gone from the US, Europe, and across the Middle East to fight in Afghanistan, Iraq, and smaller wars in Somalia and Yemen, Al Qaeda's desire to reexport terrorism has largely been a failure so far. '
Is thisÌýthe WestÌýat its most vulnerableÌýor ?
