DOD General Counsel Johnson on conditions for the end of the conflict

11/30/12:  OpinioJuris posted part of Department of Defense General Counsel Johnson's speech related to the conditions for the end of the conflict with al Qaeda.  "I do believe that on the present course, there will come a tipping point – a tipping point at which so many of the leaders and operatives of al Qaeda and its affiliates have been killed or captured, and the group is no longer able to attempt or launch a strategic attack against the United States, such that al Qaeda as we know it, the organization that our Congress authorized the military to pursue in 2001, has been effectively destroyed."