{"id":29676,"date":"2012-04-24T18:33:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T22:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29676"},"modified":"2012-04-24T18:33:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T22:33:00","slug":"mission-accomplished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29676","title":{"rendered":"Mission Accomplished"},"content":{"rendered":"

Old Trooper sends a link to The Weekly Standard Blog<\/a> which links to to the National Journal<\/a> in which Michael Hirsh quotes “one senior State Department official” as we get the rose-colored glasses slipped over our eyes;<\/p>\n

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.” <\/p>\n

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. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Whew! That was close! Just this morning we had senior commanders in Afghanistan telling us that they can’t win the war unless they get more cooperation from the Pakistanis. I guess Obama stepped up his “savagely successful military drone campaign” over lunch. <\/p>\n

And, what exactly is that “opportunity for a legitimate Islamism”? All of that stuff I see being waged against liberty in Egypt and Libya? Maybe they’ll just be killing each other instead of us for awhile, huh? That ought to keep them occupied for a year or so.<\/p>\n

I hope the “senior State Department official” realizes that the whole reason that al Qaeda was so successful in the last two decades was because it was the Taliban who gave them a sanctuary in Afghanistan from which they could train and launch their murderous terrorists on the world stage, and they’re still dead set against the Karzai government being in control.<\/p>\n

It’s like I’ve been saying since this administration embraced the Joe Biden “robot ninja zombies strategy”, the war isn’t over until this administration can form the word “victory” in their mouths. They’re only content with forming the words they think the voting public wants to hear. Their only strategy is withdrawal and if that’s going to be their strategy, they should be doing it sooner rather than later, because the only thing that will result from prolonging this mess is more dead and maimed US troops. <\/p>\n

Apparently, the second part of their strategy is to look the other way and ignore all of that reality stuff right in front of their stupid faces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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