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| "It will take time to ultimately defeat al-Qaida," he said, "and it remains a ruthless and resilient enemy bent on attacking our country. But make no mistake. We are Ugg Crochet Boots going to remain relentless in disrupting and dismantling that terrorist organization." Bruce Riedel, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution think tank, said the administration was right to make only modest claims of progress in the war. "We are far from being on the edge of anything anyone would describe as success" in either Afghanistan or Pakistan, he said in a written analysis of the White House review. "Yet at the same time, we are no longer close to the precipice of defeat and strategic disaster as we were when the president inherited the war in January 2009."
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