You would say that AQ is healthy now? Then you would say that stuffing peas up your nose is great sport too.
Here's a list of 40 top al Qaeda operatives killed or in jail:
Al-Qaeda Leadership Losses
Any org suffering that many losses at the top is not healthy, thank you.
And if you think that there are no people replacing those people, then you are having a brain fart of gigantic proportions.
I have never believed that AQ is nothing more than a loose amalgamation of terrorist idiots, and are but one of varying number of 'organisations' how are out to cause as much as destruction as they can...
The Taliban are more of a problem and it seems they have been getting stronger over the past 18 months - 2 years
No, you said al Qaeda was quite healthy. I'd like to see evidence. I offered evidence that we have killed or imprisoned 40 of their top commanders. We have obviously destroyed their base of operations in Afghanistan. We have driven their senior leadership underground.
So tell me why you think they are quite healthy, other than that admitting otherwise would require giving Pres Bush credit. Which is against your religion or something.