This editorial in the Toronto Star, written in the wake of yesterday's bombings in Turkey, gets it right:

After 9/11 the main thing was to put Al Qaeda out of business. That didn't happen. Instead, Bush invested vast resources into hammering Saddam Hussein's regime, which, while criminally brutal, was not a terrorist threat. Terror had not taken root in Iraq, before the invasion. It has now.

Meanwhile, bin Laden remains free to preach murder, and to bankroll it as his adherents stage a deadly comeback. Yet Bush is poorly placed to counter the threat to America and its allies, so bogged down is he in Iraq.

This is tragic. Bush has no priority more important than running bin Laden to ground and putting his crew out of business. It's past time to refocus the war on terror.

Bush, it appears, still does not get it:

A senior U.S. general said on Friday that al Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden had "taken himself out of the picture" and that his capture was not essential to winning the "war on terror."