No Qaeda Takeover

Olivier Roy points out that people claiming that if we leave Iraq it'll somehow be taken over by al-Qaeda don't know what they're talking about. But, hey, don't listen to him -- he's done actual scholarly research that's relevant to the issue and that kind of thing has no place in American political debate.

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2008/03/no-qaeda-takeover/43802/