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Senator John Kerry invited ridicule from the Bush Administration while running for President in 2004, when he made the point that terrorism was essentially a law enforcement and intelligence problem. "We have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they're a nuisance," he told the New York Times, suggesting that the goal was to reach a point where the specter of al-Qaeda "isn't threatening people's lives every day, and fundamentally, it's something that you continue to fight, but it's not threatening the fabric of your life."
Not even another 9/11 scale terror attack would succeed in launching al-Qaeda's revolution. The years since 9/11 have seen events in Gaza, Iraq, Lebanon and Afghanistan escalating Muslim hostility towards Israel and the U.S., and those Arab regimes deemed too willing to do Washington's bidding. But, even so, al-Qaeda remains a marginal factor. Bin Laden may have imagined that 9/11 would anoint him the head of a resurgent Caliphate in the making, but instead it has reduced him, and his movement, to a life of duck-and-cover in Pakistan's wild frontier and a political address otherwise known as oblivion. History marches on without them.

A. 어휘
senator 上元(상원) 의원. ridicule 嘲笑(조소).
the Bush Administration 부시 행정부. law enforcement 법 집행.
intelligence 정보. nuisance 불법 방해, 불쾌한 일, 폐단. specter 유령, 귀신, 도깨비.
fundamentally 근본적으로. fabric 구조, 織物(직물). launch 착수하다, 진수시키다.
hostility 敵意(적의), 적개심. regime 정권. deem 생각하다, 판단하다.
bidding 명령. marginal 주변적인, 가장자리의. factor 요인.
anoint 聖職(성직)에 임명하다, 기름을 바르다. resurgent 부활하는.
Caliphate 칼리프의 통치국. cf. caliph 회교국가의 교주 겸 국왕.
reduce 축소시키다. duck-and-cover 避身(피신). frontier 변경.
address 연설. oblivion 忘却(망각).