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The latest piece of anti-Bush spin from the BBC contains the following topic sentence: “President George Bush must now regret declaring on 1 May, that the tide had turned in the war on terror.” Yeah, right. The piece goes on to concede that “al-Qaeda seems to have adapted to the fact that, for the moment at least, it is no longer able to hit high-profile Western targets.” And that is not progress? The piece concludes: “If [al Qaeda] is no longer waging a jihad, or holy war, against the symbols of American power, and is simply engaged in indiscriminate slaughter, it risks alienating many of those who have so far provided its wider base of support.” So the tide might have turned after all?