War on Terror Faltering or Failing?

The Washington Post reports that the "U.S. military is losing momentum in the war on terrorism in Afghanistan because the remnants of al Qaeda and the Taliban have proven more successful in adapting to U.S. tactics than the U.S. military has to theirs." In all reality, that's just a nice way of saying the war is failing, miserably. As Paul Rogers concludes in his most recent column,

As far as the future of the ‘war on terror’ is concerned, an overall picture is emerging of a loose alliance of anti-American and anti-western groups, many of them connected to al-Qaida, but collectively active in a number of countries. The frequency of the attacks indicates a level of activity that may actually be on the increase, and it certainly does appear to be the case that support for such groups is at least as strong as 14 months ago, and very probably stronger. On that basis, any talk of the ‘war on terror’ being a success is a very long way from reality.