Tony Snow lays it on the table

A shorter version of the overly long post I wrote last night. According to the president, Al Qaeda in Iraq is the central front in the "war on terror," right?

Q Is the U.S. goal also to defeat the insurgency?

MR. SNOW: The U.S. goal is to have the insurgency defeated.

So that's the plan for removing Al Qaeda from Iraq, to assume that a fragile new Iraqi government will take on Sunni wrath for military operations in Anbar rather than coming to conciliation and turning a blind eye while Al Qaeda in Iraq launches attacks against Saudi Arabia and Jordan from their new safe harbor? That's the plan?