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		<title>Newsweek Declares the End of War on Terror</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the distorted world of Newsweek editor and CNN commentator Fareed Zakaria.]]></description>
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<p>Is the War on Terror over? According to “post-American” progressive, Newsweek editor and CNN commentator <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/search/?cx=013255222075609514560%3Avfcebs4vcuo&amp;q=Fareed+Zakaria&amp;cof=FORID%3A11&amp;cx=013255222075609514560%3Avfcebs4vcuo#998">Fareed Zakaria</a>, it is. After telling Americans last year to “<a href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/187093" target="_blank">learn to live with radical Islam</a>,”he now declares <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catid=107&amp;type=issue">Islamist extremism</a> to be defeated, <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/233607/page/1" target="_blank">proclaiming</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>“The enemy is not vast; the swamp is being drained. <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6211">Al Qaeda</a> has already lost in the realm of ideology. What remains is the battle to defeat it in the nooks, crannies, and crevices of the real world.”</p>
<p>“The focus of our concern now is not a broad political movement but a handful of fanatics scattered across the globe.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Indeed the changing composition of Islamic extremism does present  individuals not clearly affiliated with any established group, most notably <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2433">Nidal Malik Hasan</a>, the Fort Hood shooter, and <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/No%20Civilian%20Trials%20for%20Terrorists.html">Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab</a>, the Christmas day bomber. But despite the existence of independent radicals, Zakaria’s feint of immateriality belies the inherent risks of the continued existence of groups with extreme and violent ideology.</p>
<p>In his article, subtitled, &#8220;<em><a href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/233607/page/1">How moderate Muslim leaders waged war on extremists – and won</a></em>,&#8221; Zakaria reduces the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catid=91&amp;type=issue">War on Terror</a> to “good foreign policy” in need of “politics, diplomacy, and development” exemplifying the September 10th mentality that  viewed <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=220">terrorism</a> strictly as an international and foreign policy issue.</p>
<p>Post <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catid=146&amp;type=issue">9/11</a>, we recognize that terrorism is more than a foreign policy issue, it’s a foreign<em> </em>and domestic <em>security</em> <em>threat</em>. Since 9/11, there have been 14,942 deadly Islamist attacks worldwide (<a href="http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/attacks-2001-2003.htm">2001-2003</a>, <a href="http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/attacks-2004.htm">2004</a>, <a href="http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/attacks-2005.htm">2005</a>, <a href="http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/attacks-2006.htm">2006</a>, <a href="http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/attacks-2007.htm">2007</a>, <a href="http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/attacks-2008.htm">2008</a>, <a href="http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/attacks-2009.htm">2009</a>, <a href="http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/">2010</a>.) Zakaria’s suggestion that a change in tone, attitude, and openness will eliminate any remaining Islamist terrorists ignores the reality that if they are willing to kill their<em> own</em> children by letting them detonate suicide bombs, then they will also be willing to kill <em>our</em> children for their misguided cause. In the words of <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/1799/the-war-of-ideas-ends-in-bizarro-world">IPT News</a>,</p>
<blockquote><p>“For such a highly influential commentator to foster this sense of complacency is irresponsible and negligent.”</p></blockquote>
<p>The fact that radical Islamists <em>do</em> send their children to blow themselves up in the name of Islam is so at odds with the following statement Zakaria makes that one has to wonder <em>why</em> he would assert,</p>
<blockquote><p>“The most important moderates to denounce militants have been the families of radicals. In the case of both the five young American Muslims from Virginia arrested in Pakistan last year and Christmas bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, parents were the ones to report their worries about their own children to the U.S. government.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Unless it’s part of a calculated distraction, someone of Fareed Zakaria’s  intelligence should be loath to cite<em> two</em> examples of parents turning in their children to authorities as <em>proof</em> of moderate Muslims defeating Islamist extremists. The only Islamic states he cites proving his thesis are Saudi Arabia, Indonesia and Iraq, all hotbeds of radical extremists who despite overt declarations of opposition to extremism may very well be covertly  provisioning weapons, financing, or logistical support to them. But Zakaria’s article is not written to support his thesis, but rather his political ideology. And here’s where we find the money quote. Zakaria stealthily injects the true reason we <em>believe</em> Islamist jihadism is widespread,</p>
<blockquote><p>“Republicans have clearly decided that fanning the public’s fears of rampant <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catid=124&amp;type=issue">jihadism</a> continues to be a winning strategy.”</p></blockquote>
<p>How Republicans manage to be introduced into an article focused on the defeat of radical Islamists by moderate Muslims is almost inconceivable. But Zakaria’s point was never to support his thesis, but to insinuate that radical jihadism only exists out of fear and that fear is spread by Republicans. In Zakaria’s ideology, 19 terrorists crashing airplanes into the World Trade Center towers, the Pentagon and Shanksville, PA in no way demonstrates radical Islamist extremism. But his obtuse logic is defied by the facts, and the War on Terror goes on.</p>
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