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The War on Terror Is Over
The Weekly Standard ^ | 'The War on Terror Is Over' | DANIEL HALPER

Posted on 04/23/2012 6:47:37 PM PDT by Drill Thrawl

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."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: islam; terror; wot; wotover
If the "War on Terror" is over. Kill the TSA.

Muslim Brotherhood and other relatively 'moderate' Islamist groups - The very definition of non-sequitor!

These progressive ass-clowns are going to get us killed.

1 posted on 04/23/2012 6:47:40 PM PDT by Drill Thrawl
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To: Drill Thrawl

Terror won.


2 posted on 04/23/2012 6:48:03 PM PDT by null and void (Day 1189 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made Frank, they're cornered...])
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To: null and void

You may be correct. It certainly did in Sanford, FL.


3 posted on 04/23/2012 6:53:47 PM PDT by Drill Thrawl (The United States of America, a banana republic since 1913)
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To: Drill Thrawl
These people are running your country.

Too bad no one cares. Oh well.

Go pay your taxes. Our new terrorist moderate Islamist allies need the money. :)
4 posted on 04/23/2012 7:03:29 PM PDT by Tzimisce (THIS SUCKS)
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To: Drill Thrawl

Liberals learn nothing from History, they are to busy re writing it. No, the war is not over, we only had a skirmish, the real bad stuff is coming and we better be prepared for it.


5 posted on 04/23/2012 7:04:46 PM PDT by Bringbackthedraft ( WHO WE ELECT AS PRESIDENT IS NOT AS IMPORTANT AS WHO THEY APPOINT.)
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To: Drill Thrawl

“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 Islamis
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There IS no legitimate Islam.

Every “moderate” Muslim is a potential terrorist. The belief in Islam is like a tank of gasoline. It looks innocuous, until it meets the fire. For a “moderate” Muslim to become a murderous jihadist, all it takes is a spark of faith.

Ali Sina


6 posted on 04/23/2012 7:08:44 PM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: Drill Thrawl; null and void
"Terror won."

That was the first thing I thought when I read the article.

"You may be correct. It certainly did in Sanford, FL."

That particular round of unpleasantness is just getting started.

7 posted on 04/23/2012 7:10:44 PM PDT by Flotsam_Jetsome (If not you, who? If not now, when?)
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To: null and void

That is a fact. Islam is super communism.


8 posted on 04/23/2012 7:27:17 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Drill Thrawl

First we fought the war on poverty under Johnson. Poverty won.
Next we fought the war on grugs. Drugs won.
Then we fought the war on terror. Terror won.


9 posted on 04/23/2012 7:29:59 PM PDT by sport
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To: Flotsam_Jetsome; Drill Thrawl; null and void
"terror won"

Yep! Just look around ground zero. Americans just rolled over and spread their legs and allowed the perps to build an in-your-face monument to their terrorist ideology.

10 posted on 04/23/2012 7:32:22 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: Drill Thrawl

The Terror Wars have only just begun. This pronouncement is about 75 years premature and will remain so until Mecca is a plain of slag glass.


11 posted on 04/23/2012 7:36:33 PM PDT by davius (You can roll manure in powdered sugar but that don't make it a jelly doughnut.)
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To: Anti-Bubba182
That is a fact. Islam is super communism.

It is a 1000 times more dangerous than communism. A religion which instructs its followers to kill or convert all who do not believe and has billions of followers is a grave threat to our very way of life, and one which we are quite ill-prepared to confront.


12 posted on 04/23/2012 7:45:47 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic (2012 isn't an election - it's a restraining order.)
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To: davius

We will find
sooner or later
if Achmed’ll pray
to a glowing crater


13 posted on 04/23/2012 7:46:32 PM PDT by null and void (Day 1189 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made Frank, they're cornered...])
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To: Drill Thrawl

“The war on terror is over,”a senior official in the State Department official tells the National Journal.”

Why is his/her $%#@ing name being kept a secret????


14 posted on 04/23/2012 8:36:58 PM PDT by Gator113 (***YOU GAVE it to Obama. I would have voted for NEWT.~Just livin' life, my way~)
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To: Bringbackthedraft

” - - - Liberals learn nothing from History - - - “

Good point!

Remember Impeached “Zipper-Boy” Clinton?

The size of the US Federal Government has DOUBLED since Slick Willy said “The Era of Big Government is over!”


15 posted on 04/23/2012 8:51:18 PM PDT by Graewoulf ((Dictator Baby-Doc Barack's obama"care" violates Sherman Anti-Trust Law, AND U.S. Constitution.))
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To: Drill Thrawl

A new war will start then, and this one will be worse than terror, and it will be the war of retards and retardation to democratize medicine and everything in America.

Chaos will occure, because if they feel like it, it’s going to have to be it, I guess...

Judge Jesus super star


16 posted on 04/23/2012 9:45:24 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: Drill Thrawl

THey want 911 to fade away behind the pressing needs of Ms Fluke, and to spin the new civil war on Zimmerman as a new cause for the sake of national security.

There, the Magic One snapped his finger and Islamic terrorism is no more, AMerica can go to sleep now.

However, we have a new war, and this is the evil war on America by Amerikka.


17 posted on 04/24/2012 8:54:48 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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