Bureaucrats in charge, sailing
paper airplanes and government edicts from their cubicles to the world.
"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."
The arrogance
of such a statement is mind boggling as well a stupid. At what negotiation did
radical Islam capitulate? Did this bureaucrat get a signed document along with
a prayer minaret alarm clock as a souvenir?
“Legitimate
Islamism”? Oh, that should comfort Cairo and Islamabad. How absolutely
wonderful that we have named parts of Islam legitimate and for an extra point
we have also identified which Islamists are legitimately practicing it. We know
who is legitimate because this administration has doubled ObamaCare’s savings
by employing its death panels to remove those costing us too much money from
the system.
This ending of
the war on terror will impress those few, those very few, who still want to
kill us into laying down their IEDs and joining the GOTV effort on behalf of
Obama. Now Obama can bring all of our troops home, say around October? Trillions
of dollars will immediately be freed up to address our ballooning national debt actually
making it disappear by November 1st! All of this magic will carpet
our governance from cubicle to cubicle and it will once again be morning in
America.
For everyone
else the war will continue.
