The Time blogger previously known as Anonymous writes that Obama is already winning the War on Terror:
The Zawahiri letter is one of the first real indications we have of the new international state of affairs (the Ahmadinejad letter of congratulations may also have been a good sign, but was leavened by the author’s lack of real power and the fact that he’s running for reelection). The terrorists are now exposed as racists, on top of everything else. We have many miles to go in Afghanistan and the northern and western precincts of Pakistan, and more blood to shed–and innumerable ways to screw up, since no one has ever gotten Afghanistan right–but the wind seems to have shifted slightly and is now at our back.
Translation: Terrorists have killed innocent civilians by the thousands, decapitated living human beings, and used woman and children as suicide bombers, but two wars and seven years of struggle by troops from America and around the world have not stopped them. Yet now that Obama has exposed them as racists, victory is within sight!