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发帖数: 29846 | 1 What if the Obama Administration Declared the Global War on Terror over…
May 1, 2012 Posted by Rodney Graves
…and only 11% of the voting public believed them?
Wonder no more.
The claim:
Can Obama Safely Embrace Islamists?
By Michael Hirsh | NationalJournal
…
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.”
Which was promptly walked back:
(In a Tuesday night update to this post, White House spokesman Tommy
Vietor clarified that while the “war on terror” concept has been dropped,
“we absolutely have never said our war against al Qaida is over. We are
prosecuting that war at an unprecedented pace.”
What prompted the walkback?
Only 11% Think War on Terror Is Over
Rasmussen
Voters overwhelmingly reject the idea that the war on terror is over one
year after the death of 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden, although most feel
his al Qaeda terrorist group is weaker today. But a majority also still
thinks a terrorist attack is possible in the next year.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 11% of
Likely U.S. Voters think the war on terror is over. Seventy-nine percent (
79%) say that war, declared after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks
on America, is not over. Another 11% are undecided. (To see survey question
wording, click here.)
When 79% of the electorate don’t believe you, you’re in trouble, and as
trial baloons go, this one resembled the Hindenberg. |
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