Foggy Foggy Bottom: "The War on Terror is Over"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Daniel Halper at the Weekly Standard:

In the wake of the Arab Spring, the Obama administration is grappling with how to handle Islamists, radical adherents to Islam. Particularly, the issue has come to the fore in regards to Egypt, which, as Reuel Marc Gerecht notes, "is now certain" to elect "an Islamist" as its leaders the next time the Egyptian people go to the polls.

But some in the Obama administration are now seeing things differently.

"The war on terror is over," a senior official in the State Department official tells the National Journal. "Now that we have killed most of al Qaida, now that people have come to see legitimate means of expression, people who once might have gone into al Qaida see an opportunity for a legitimate Islamism."

This new outlook has, in the words of the National Journal, come from a belief among administration officials that "It is no longer the case, in other words, that every Islamist is seen as a potential accessory to terrorists."

 

More at http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/war-terror-over_640620.html

 

Comments

[Tom Glennon]

HOORAY!! The War On Terror is over!! Now we can dissolve the Department of Homeland Security, and tell the TSA they no longer need to pat down a 4 year old girl because Grandma might have slipped a gun into her teddy bear. Oh, and Big Sis will have to give up her chauffeur driven limousine.

[Mannie Sherberg]

The Barack Chamberlain pic says it all. What baffles me is how such poltroons ascend to positions of power. Obviously, they get there because other poltroons vote for them -- but that only complicates the mystery; it doesn't solve it. Chesterton probably had part of the answer back in 1931, when he said "Democracy means government by the uneducated." One thing is certain: as long as we have electorates who vote dastards into high office, we will end up with Barack Chamberlains or Neville Obamas or whatever you call them -- and as long as we do that, the West will remain in mortal peril.