OBAMA ADMIN: THE WAR ON TERROR IS 'OVER'

[Geee]

Breitbart:

Today, the National Journal reported that a senior State Department official has announced, “The war on terror is over.”

“Now that we have killed most of al Qaida,” the source said, “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.”

The article itself describes the Obama administration’s new vision of foreign policy, which admits no enemies. Everyone, in this view, is a friend. Islamism, says the Obama administration, is just fine, so long as it does not openly support terrorism.

This, of course, is utter foolishness. Islamism is a religious ideological movement that brooks no real alternatives – so while the State Department proclaims “a legitimate Islamism,” it fails to acknowledge that Islamism, “legitimate” or not, is deeply intolerant of any other modes of expression. Not only that, but Islamism works hand-in-glove with terror groups around the world. Simply because a regime does not openly house al Qaida does not mean that the regime doesn’t support al Qaida; just because a regime pretends at democracy doesn’t mean that it has real democratic values.

Obama has created the brave new Middle East – a Middle East that assumes that every human heart has the desire to vote, but not to be truly free; a Middle East that oppresses women and gays and minorities, but pretends at liberalism; a Middle East that despises America but hides that hate behind a façade of multiculturalism, even as it disposes of its internal dissenters.

In truth, Obama isn’t declaring an end to the war on terror – terrorism continues unabated each day in Egypt and the Palestinian territories and Iraq and Afghanistan and Sudan and Yemen and Syria and Lebanon and a dozen other hotspots around the globe. Obama is truly declaring an end to the war on Islamism. He has made his peace; he has surrendered. In doing so, he has condemned broad swaths of the world to darkness, and more immediately, he has condemned America to a defensive position in the world. Now there is no proactive America shaping the world to her own ends. Now there is only an atomistic world, a series of billiard balls, in which America waits to be struck before bouncing back.

[Valin]

That a senior State Department official would say this comes as no surprise. This shows a fundamental misunderstanding of just who we are fighting. But this is the senior State Dept. leadership, so we should not be surprised.

[Argyle58]

Our wars with radical Islamists and terrorists are not recent events, but have been part of our struggle as a nation since our inception. Our first military actions as a world power were against the Barbary states that sponsored, and actually carried out, acts of piracy against U.S. ships. Those governments claimed then, as the radicals do today, that their religion gave them the authority to kill, kidnap, maim and confiscate property from anyone who is not a member of the Muslim religion.

 

I am SSSOOOOOOO dreading November.

[RandyM]

Nibble, nibble, nibble.... our freedoms and way of life chewed away bit by bit.... and the general public doesn't see or say a thing.

[Geee]

Well, if they were talking about the terror of him being president, I indeed do hope that it is just about over

[Valin]

Well, if they were talking about the terror of him being president, I indeed do hope that it is just about over

 

All Right! No Obamacare for you!