'The war on terror is over'

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Senior State Department Official: ‘The war on terror is over’

Michael Hirsh
Nationaljournal.com
April 23, 2012

In an article in the current National Journal called “The Post Al Qaida Era,” I write that the Obama administration is taking a new view of Islamist radicalism. The president realizes he has no choice but to cultivate the Muslim Brotherhood and other relatively “moderate” Islamist groups emerging as lead political players out of the Arab Spring in Egypt, Tunisia and elsewhere. (The Muslim Brotherhood officially renounced violence decades ago, leading then-dissident radicals such as Ayman al-Zawahiri to join al Qaida.)

It is no longer the case, in other words, that every Islamist is seen as a potential accessory to terrorists. “The war on terror is over,” one senior State Department official who works on Mideast issues told me. “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.”

Read more: http://decoded.nationaljournal.com/2012/04/can-obama-safely-embrace-islam.php

...and at: http://www.naturalnews.com/035666_war_on_terror_Al_Qaida_Obama.html

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“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.”



NOW the so called 'Arab Spring' is making more sense. And why Gaddafi's Libya was sacrificed to the cause...and that they are trying to do the same with Syria.

I was confused why Britain, France (and the US) etc were fighting knowingly on the side of Al Qaeda in Libya...I made a remark somewhere about it...that it was as if Libya had been GIVEN to Al qaeda. That it was almost as if a deal had been done with Al Qaeda.:confused:

I know the Libya debacle was about other things as well like the Gold Dinar and the oil.

The saying 'killing two birds with one stone' comes to mind.

I saw a TV programme about WikiLeaks a while back and there was a US cable about an analysis of what drove the Militant Islamic Jihadists...can't remember the exact details about it...but it was about one of the solutions to the terrorist problems was if Al Qaeda had more political outlets...that they, in essence, might then channel their energy into political power...


Mind you...the whole thing could easily backfire....:twitch:


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