No, it is not ‘in defeat’, as the Obama regime claims, as they claimed before September 11, 2012, as well.
Via Weekly Standard:
Fifteen years after the September 11, 2001, hijackings, the al Qaeda threat is growing. Al Qaeda has the capacity to attempt a mass casualty attack inside the U.S. and Europe today.
Many assume that al Qaeda is a spent force, especially after the surge of Abu Bakr al Baghdadi’s Islamic State. But they are wrong. Years of erroneous assessments have clouded our vision of an enemy that remains committed to its anti-American cause.
The Obama administration has repeatedly claimed that drone strikes have crippled al Qaeda’s “core,” which is not well-defined. Much of the reporting on al Qaeda focuses on this senior management layer, which al Qaeda refers to as its “general command.”