Bush's response to displace the Taleban in Afghanistan and put Al-Qaeda very much on the back foot.

I just typed "Al Qaeda stronger than ever" into Google, just to see. Came up with 93,000 links.

Here's one more or less taken at random, a BBC report earlier this year: US concern at al-Qaeda strength

As the old saying goes - "The operation was a total success, but the patient died."