FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
When al-Qa`ida killed 2,977 people on September 11, 2001, our country had no greater priority than to stop Bin Laden and his followers from continuing their campaign of terror and plunging the world into a backwards vision of oppression and violence.
Twenty-two years later, a new intelligence assessment states al-Qa`ida is at its historical nadir in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and its revival is unlikely. It has lost target access, leadership talent, group cohesion, rank-and-file commitment, and an accommodating local environment.
This is just the most recent example of what the United States and its allies and partners have achieved in the years since those terrible attacks.
Across four U.S. Administrations, we have sustained a core counterterrorism effort—tailored to the challenges of the time—that has reduced the danger to the U.S. Homeland and forced a reshaping of the terrorist landscape. It is important that we continue to do so.
Thanks in large part to the good work of intelligence, law enforcement, defense, diplomatic, and homeland security professionals over two decades, counterterrorism is no longer the driving force of the United States’ national security strategy. That is the right answer for our country. We are contending with a myriad of new challenges that, if uncontested, could undermine the rules-based international system. But even as counterterrorism is not...
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