....America eventually regained its focus and OBL now sleeps with the fishes!
Originally Posted by bigtex
Oh, good. Another patriot of Obaminable's .. "no more terrorism"! I beat them down!
May 23, 2013:
President Obama said Thursday that
al Qaeda is nearly defeated and the war on terrorism has changed since he took office, and that demands a broad rethink that includes scaling down drone attacks, transferring detainees from Guantanamo Bay and revisiting the 2001 congressional resolution that set the country on perpetual war footing.
After the death of
Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants,
al Qaeda has been decimated, scattered across the North Africa and the Middle East and able to launch only small-scale attacks, Mr. Obama told an audience gathered at the
National Defense University in Washington.
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“America is at a crossroads,” he said. “We must define the nature and scope of this struggle, or else it will define us, mindful of
James Madison’s warning that ‘no nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.’”
Senior administration officials went further by telling reporters that Mr. Obama wants to jettison the whole mindset that the U.S. is still engaged in a war on terrorism.
“The president has indicated and will indicate again that he rejects the notion of global war on terrorism, which is an amorphous definition that applies to a tactic,” one official said.
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...#ixzz2awGfih3b
Worthy of a repeat:
"Mr. Obama wants to jettison the whole mindset that the U.S. is still engaged in a war on terrorism."
I suppose the French took that approach in WWII. There is no war. The Germans are just wonderful.
BT, don't rewrite your history. You continually posted to "allow" the inspections to continue? Let the "inspections" work. ... blah, blah. Two questions: What inspections? Go look at the U.N. resolutions and the fact findings supporting them by the "U.N." investigators ... and #2: If there were no WMDs (and you knew it all along) why would you advocate "more inspections" to look for something you knew already didn't exist?
That's why you love Monday morning quarterbacking. So here we are in reality ...
you changing a thread topic to fit your desire to talk about anything but the current events ... and your guy's bullshit.
So, if there is no war on terrorism ... why are we closing our embassies across the middle east?
Because Bush attacked Iraq?