{"id":11501,"date":"2012-04-26T05:45:41","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T09:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geneveith.com\/?p=11501"},"modified":"2012-04-26T05:45:41","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T09:45:41","slug":"the-war-on-terror-is-over-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2012\/04\/the-war-on-terror-is-over-2\/","title":{"rendered":"“The war on terror is over”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Michael Hirsh, writing in the National Journal<\/em>, in the course of a discussion of the Obama administration\u2019s new Middle East policy quotes an unnamed State Department official as declaring that \u201cthe war on terror is over.\u201d<\/p>\n

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 \u201cmoderate\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

It is no longer the case, in other words, that every Islamist is seen as a potential accessory to terrorists. \u201cThe war on terror is over,\u201d one senior State Department official who works on Mideast issues told me. \u201cNow 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.\u201d In a Tuesday night update to this post, White House spokesman Tommy Vietor clarified that while the \u201cwar on terror\u201d concept has been dropped, \u201cwe absolutely have never said our war against al Qaida is over. We are prosecuting that war at an unprecedented pace.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nThe 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\u2019s savagely successful military drone campaign against the worst of the violent jihadists, al Qaida.\n

Some of the smarter hardliners on the Right, like Reuel Marc Gerecht, are coming to realize that the Arab world may find another route to democracy\u2013through Islamism. The question is, how will this play politically at a time when Obama\u2019s GOP rival, Mitt Romney, is painting the president as a weak accommodationist?<\/p>\n

via Can Obama Safely Embrace Islamists? \u2013 2012 Decoded<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thus, the end of the war on terrorism does not mean that we can have a big celebration in Times Square, much less that we can stop getting strip searched at airports.\u00a0 It means that the administration wants to cozy up to at least some jihadists, without considering them our enemies.<\/p>\n

Wise or unwise?<\/p>\n

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