MERRILL HARTSON
Associated Press

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration proclaimed significant progress in the war on terror Tuesday but said the enemy has adjusted to U.S. defenses and that “America is safer but we are not yet safe.”

Releasing an updated counterterrorism strategy in advance of a speech that President Bush was set to give later in the day, the White House said: “The United States and our partners continue to pursue a significantly degraded but still dangerous al-Qaida network.”

“Yet the enemy we face today in the war on terror is not the same enemy we faced on Sept. 11,” said the 23-page terrorism strategy update. “Our effective counterterrorist efforts in part have forced the terrorists to evolve and modify their ways of doing business.”

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We’re safer but not quite yet safe.
God-fearing but not quite yet theocratic.
Pushy and obnoxious but not quite yet totalitarian.
Less black but not quite yet white.
A little less down but not quite yet up.
Etc., etc., …etc.