If, according to Mary Habeck, "the emergence of difference groups elucidates the extent to which Al Qaeda has spread... and the strength of its ideology...", then does that not imply that the policy in the last three years (reference Iraq, Syria, Libya) has been a failure? And if it's also true that AQ "strives for insurgences rather than individual international attacks", does this not lend credence to Habeck's argument and also suggest that AQ has strengthened, not weakened?