That’s part of the take away from Mark Mazetti and David Rohde’s sprawling New York Times piece on the Bush administration’s failure to eviscerate Al Qaeda. The jist of the article is that due to diverting reources and attention to Iraq, Al Qaeda has regrouped in Pakistani tribal areas, and is now as strong as it was Sept. 10, 2001.

But the CIA hasn’t helped matters by never developing a coherent planning operation in Pakistan. Battles between field officers and the agency’s counterterrorist center in America have stalled intelligence operations. Of course, that the administration and military has judged the fight against Al Qaeda passe for the past six years hasn’t helped.-MB

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