The anti-terrorism box score 

The anti-terrorism box score

As noted in TAP online many of the President's supporters hope for people to focus on the successes of his administration's counter-terrorism efforts, namely the toppling of the Taliban in Afghanistan and Saddam in Iraq. Although those are clearly successes, I have to question (again) whether they are counter-terrorism successes. The Taliban connection to 9/11 is once removed and as the administration has failed to prove otherwise, Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11. The perpetrators of 9/11, Osama and Al Qaeda, are still out there, still active, and still deadly. If that doesn't count as a failure, and one that outweighs those "successes," I'd be willing to have somebody explain to me why not.