Encouraging, and .......
I truly hope you are not overreaching and "al Qaeda has stupidly alienated most of its support in the Sunni Muslim World."
It would make me happier if al Qaeda has lost all support from the entire Muslim world and when I hear the Mullahs and Imans condeming the politics of violence.
The real battle being fought cannot be won with guns and bullets. This is a battle of minds, concepts, systems and fueled as a conflict of beliefs.
Publius