Summary: The new head of Britain’s armed forces, Gen. David Richards, says that the West cannot defeat al-Qaida but that defeating it is “unnecessary” because it can be contained. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on November 16, 2009, Aubrey Immelman featured excerpts from an article by Paul Harris, New York-based correspondent for The Observer and The Guardian, supplemented with annotated commentary of Rep. Michele Bachmann.