Posted on 04/23/2012 7:34:31 PM PDT by kristinn
In an article in the current National Journal called "The Post Al Qaida Era," I write that 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 "moderate" 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.)
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."
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at decoded.nationaljournal.com ...
I forgot Jacob. Moses...Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
That worked out real well, didn't it?
These a$$hats in the State Department are not nearly as stupid as they sound, and this garbage - which is 100% orchestrated by the Mufti-in-Chief - is just another piece of the effort to undermine Israel.
The Ikhwan is the principal cog in establishing the Caliphate.
So, the present Administration is also now supporting the legitimacy of the Caliphate by legitimizing the Ikhwas/Muslim Brotherhood and Sisterhood?
“moderate Islamist groups”
Isn’t that like being “a little bit” pregnant? It’s also a contradiction in terms.
“an opportunity for a legitimate Islamism”
A DEFINITE oxymoron.
I’m not sure which is more disgusting - that BHO thinks Americans are this stupid, or that the (arguable) majority ARE.
“Why do I feel dems want to keep those agencies?”
Because, of course, they DO - so that they can now be used to go after the real enemy: American citizens/patriots.
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