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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.”
Originally posted by neo96
So this is going to make some happy campers the anti war crowd and Al queda quite the shame we never learn from history.
Al queda is sitting there claiming victory and they have it pretty easy to be the winner when your foe gives up.
Guess it's better to live on your knees.edit on 25-4-2012 by neo96 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by neo96
reply to post by stanguilles7
Did i say that?
quote it
why the hell do people do that crap hell make it it means whatever the hell you want it to.
Originally posted by stanguilles7
You think Obama is basically surrendering to Al Quedia, right? That seems to be what you are implying.
Originally posted by neo96
Al queda is sitting there claiming victory and they have it pretty easy to be the winner when your foe gives up.
(In a Tuesday night update to this post, White House spokesman Tommy Vietor clarified that while the "war on terror" concept has been dropped, "we absolutely have never said our war against al Qaida is over. We are prosecuting that war at an unprecedented pace."
Originally posted by Blackmarketeer
The 'war on terror' has been over, the only reason we stay in Afghanistan is to keep milking the 'war for profit' being run by the Military Industrial Complex. Or the 'war of conquest of Afghanistan's natural resources'. Al Qaeada? You mean that quasi-CIA "terror" organization formerly ran by OBL? Whether you believe he's been dead since 2002 or killed in the much-publicized raid in 2011, OBL and AQ are dead.
Time to end this farce of a war. Doesn't every student of history know that Afghanistan is where empires go to die?
It’s official. The U.S. is no longer engaged in a “war on terrorism.” Neither is it fighting “jihadists” or in a “global war.”
President Obama’s top homeland security and counterterrorism official took all three terms off the table of acceptable words inside the White House during a speech Thursday at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank.
“The President does not describe this as a ‘war on terrorism,’” said John Brennan, head of the White House homeland security office, who outlined a “new way of seeing” the fight against terrorism.
The only terminology that Mr. Brennan said the administration is using is that the U.S. is “at war with al Qaeda.”
“We are at war with al Qaeda,” he said. “We are at war with its violent extremist allies who seek to carry on al Qaeda’s murderous agenda.”
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in March that the administration was not using the term “war on terror” but no specific directive had come from the White House itself. Mr. Obama himself used the term “war on terror” on Jan. 23, his fourth day as president, but has not used it since.
Originally posted by jibeho
reply to post by Indigo5
Not so fast... Let's flashback to 2009 again...