White House Misleading Nation on Al Qaeda Threat?

White House Misleading Nation on Al Qaeda Threat?

Two weeks ago and just days before the one year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden, we were told by the Obama administration that the "war on terror" is over.

"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."  (In a Tuesday night update to this post, White House spokesman...