Obama refocuses terror threat to pre-9/11 level

Associated Press ^ | May 25, 2013 3:05 PM EDT | Robert Burns

[Olog-hai]

Some call it wishful thinking, but President Barack Obama has all but declared an end to the global war on terror.

Obama is not claiming final victory over extremists who still seek to kill Americans and other Westerners. Instead, he is refocusing the long struggle against terrorism that lies ahead, steering the United States away from what he calls an equally frightening threat—a country in a state of perpetual war. In doing so, Obama recasts the image of the terrorists themselves, from enemy warriors to cowardly thugs and resets the relationship between the U.S. and Islam.

His speech Thursday was designed to move America’s mindset away from a war footing and refine and recalibrate his own counterterrorism strategy. Obama asserted that al-Qaida is “on the path to defeat,” reducing the scale of terrorism to pre-Sept. 11 levels. That means that with the Afghanistan war winding down, Obama is unlikely to commit troops in large numbers to any conflict—in Syria or other countries struggling with instability in the uncertain aftermath of the Arab Spring—unless, as his critics fear, he tragically has underestimated al-Qaida's staying power. …

[Luke21]

So does that mean the TSA will stop harassing people in airports?

[bigheadfred]

right we are seeing the rise before the fall whatever read my tag barry

[FlingWingFlyer]

It sounds to me like we sure don’t need that phonyass Department of Homeland “Security” anymore. It’s time to sequester that joint.

[Sarah Barracuda]

Wait, so the war on terror is over..cool..I will let those people in Boston who lost those pesky little limbs hey its all good, the war on terror is over

[MtnClimber]

Disband SS. Let that Zero family have a 45 minute police response time like the rest of us and that is all. FUBO!

[Telepathic Intruder]

Obama has done nothing but support al Qaeda’s efforts around the world. They are hardly on the path to defeat.

[JoeProBono]

[yldstrk]

what one fugging month since the Boston bombing

Is he on crack?

[Spok]

Solving the problem in typical liberal fashion: you end terrorism by simply calling it something else.

[Paladin2]

I find that 0bama and his minions induces terror in me.

[Ken522]

The occupier of the oval office has decided he needs more attacks from muslims to keep attention away from how badly he is doing ...

[Olog-hai]

That’ll certainly be the wrong way to do it, because that’ll end up defining how badly he’s doing.

[djpg]

He’s declaring victory and pulling out. The entire Islamic world will consider us as defeated.

[headstamp 2]

“His speech Thursday was designed to move America’s mindset away from a war footing and refine and recalibrate his own counterterrorism strategy. Obama asserted that al-Qaida is “on the path to defeat,” reducing the scale of terrorism to pre-Sept. 11 levels.”

This is how America has operated. Ours is a crisis driven society.

We can all go back to sleep now until we get hammered again. It’s too bad a number of people will have to be maimed and killed for us to wake up again at a later date.

[piasa]

Obama has awfully big ears for an ostrich.

[piasa]

Since jihadists aren't going to stop carrying out bombings and assasinations and so on just because Obama declares an end to war, what Obama is really saying is that he has decided that a certain level of American casualties are acceptable. That's apparently what he decided in the case of Benghazi, too, that an ambassador and 30 US government employees are expendable and not worth fighting over. MPSomeone needs to ask him what his tolerable casualty number is... we know it is over 14 lives per incident because he still thinks the FT Hood massacre was just a workplace incident and he hasn't figured out what the boston bombings were.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Some call it wishful thinking, but President Barack Obama has all but declared an end to the global war on terror...next he'll be claiming that he's cured cancer - oh, we'll still be fighting prostate cancer, and breast cancer, and colon cancer, but the war on Cancer is won......

[joseph20]

There is no such thing as a pre-9/11 threat level. This is impossible due to the reality of time moving forward. Saying “pre-9/11 threat level” is utterly nonsensical in meaning.

Never forget.

[CottShop]

[[has all but declared an end to the global war on terror.]]

And has single handedly solved every other problem known to man as well