Is the War on Terror Over?

During the run-up to the presidential election last year, the president told us that the war on terror was over.  It is my opinion that the Benghazi incident in September wouldn't have happened except that the Obama administration was trying to prove that the Obama foreign policy theory was correct.  Mr. Obama took an approach of being nice to all of the middle east except Israel.  His contention is that they will love us if we are nice to the Islamic countries.

He supported the rebels in the "Arab Spring" uprisings in hopes that we would be in their good graces afterward.  Troops were even sent to help overthrow Muammar Gaddafi in Libya, and ultimately, Gaddafi was killed.  Of course, Obama overlooked the fact that Gaddafi wasn't overwhelmingly hated by Libyans.  He had a number of supporters, and a group of them attacked our embassy in Benghazi.  The MessAPolitico created political conflict that led to the death of four people from our embassy.  We did nothing to respond before, during, or after the incident, because politicians created a MessAPolitico.

Why didn't we close our embassy in Benghazi like other countries had done?  Why didn't we provide extra security there upon request?  During the attack, why didn't we scramble jets, helicopters, cruise missiles and everything else we had in the area to save these folks at the embassy?  If there weren't any resources in the area to protect our interests, why not?  It was the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.  The answer to all of these question is politics.  Taking action would prove that the war on terror was not over, and that would create a MessAPolitico in the minds of the administration officials.  Of course, there wouldn't have been a problem at all if the administration had done the right thing instead of the politically correct thing.

Now, the MessAPolitico has created a new conundrum.  Edward Snowden has leaked the information about the NSA program to monitor our telephone and Internet contacts.  The American people are largely against this program.  The administration and others in Washington now are saying that this program has prevented terrorist attacks.  How can this be?  I thought the war on terror was over.  The world is safe now.

The Obama administration wants the NSA program to continue.  Now they have to say that there is still a terror threat that necessitates the NSA monitoring.  Is this big threat we've heard about this weekend real?  Maybe it is real.  Or, maybe this is like that YouTube video that caused the attack in Benghazi.  Could the MessAPolitico be lying to us?  Do you trust them anymore?  Did you ever trust them?