but zawahiri and the egyptians never swore an oath or a buy outto omar. and having lived in that part of the world and done a lot of work with kahl and others suggests strongly it is not the ideological linkage to al qaeda anymore that matters most to omar, but the strategic linkage to pakistan and how far pakistan wishes to see notions that the jihad from western pakistan is being fermented into an international problem, either for americans or chinese or others, that that's the constraining break right now. so what does that leave us? with half the other two of the five key things of al qaeda that are left out there, that we do legitimately have to worry about, but we neat to need to take a different tack and approach that says res reduce the footprint of american military and western military where you can, orient around special forces, indirect strikes, technology and better police coordination. and that's kind of where i think we're headed in yemen and somalia, maybe slow for our liking, but where we need to get to. and also as a consequence, we shou