How to pronounce “punctuation mark” in English

I feel like a Sovietologist in 1989, which is like this problem--. The difference is, of course, the Soviet Union officially has dissolved itself. Al Qaeda will never say,"Hey, we are out of business." But they are effectively out of business. If the death of bin Laden and the Arab Spring isn't the punctuation mark, what is? We didn't killevery Nazi to win World War II.