OK, maybe not “World Peace.” But the National Journal is reporting:
“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.”
And they go on to explain:
The new approach is made possible by the double impact of the Arab Spring, which supplies a new means of empowerment to young Arabs other than violent jihad, and Obama’s savagely successful military drone campaign against the worst of the violent jihadists, al Qaida.
Yes, the Arab Spring is going swimmingly and Obama’s War Cock has crushed Al Qaida. And yes, they think you are stupid. These are laughingly obvious falsehoods.
The Arab Spring has been a disaster. We already watched Egypt and Libya go from bad to worse with the removal of known-quantities Mubarak and Qaddafi in favor of unknown Islamist coalitions reduced to bickering and infighting. And I can’t be the only person noticing Syria. Oh look! Iran! The suggestion that the region is better off today isn’t just ludicrous, it’s insulting.
And Al Qaeda crushed? If you believe that I have a unicorn for sale, cheap. He poops rainbows that smell like Chanel No.5, seriously. From Canadian Intelligence, yesterday.
So let’s sum up, shall we?:
- The left, the gov’t and the media claim the economy is recovering… But it’s not.
- They say the greatest security threat we face is climate change… It’s not.
- They charged the Tea Party as violent, racist, astro-turf financed by corporations… It’s not.
- They say Ryan and conservatives want to push granny off a cliff… We don’t.
- And now they claim the War on Terror is over…