A hubristic America, however, then walked into a trap of its own making by invading Iraq in 2003. It got rid of a dangerous dictator but gave the jihadists a popular cause against American occupiers in the Muslim heartland. For a while the jihadists thought they could carve out a base in Iraq from which to destabilise the region. That danger may now have been averted. Helped by al Qaeda’s excesses, a bloodied America seems to be fighting its way out of the worst of the troubles it created for itself. [Thus] terrorism experts are now debating whether al Qaeda is starting to burn itself out.
Excerpted from an article in ‘The Economist’
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