Waning Islamist Terror

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Interest in al-Qaida is waning in the Muslim world?

These terrorists have been so quiet for so long, I'm beginning to think we really did overblow the Islamist threat, at least as far as America is concerned. The thought also leads one to wonder whether we indeed may be able to turn over a new page with a new Administration, and truly get back to the business of building ourselves up as well as becoming a more unequivocally positive force in the world at large. Or is this just an Indian summer?

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Waning Islamist Terror

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Interest in al-Qaida is waning in the Muslim world?

These terrorists have been so quiet for so long, I'm beginning to think we really did overblow the Islamist threat, at least as far as America is concerned. The thought also leads one to wonder whether we indeed may be able to turn over a new page with a new Administration, and truly get back to the business of building ourselves up as well as becoming a more unequivocally positive force in the world at large. Or is this just an Indian summer?

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Doubting Obamamania

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You are embarrassing yourselves. With your "Yes We Can" music video, your "Fired Up, Ready to Go" song, your endless chatter about how he's the first one to inspire you, to make you really feel something -- it's as if you're tacking photos of Barack Obama to your locker, secretly slipping him little notes that read, "Do you like me? Check yes or no." Some of you even cry at his speeches. If I were Obama, and you voted for me, I would so never call you again.

Obamaphilia has gotten creepy.

-- Joel Stein for The Los Angeles Times

Here is some counterveiling sentiment to our Obama dreaming. You do want to be wary about these kinds of things. We are risking more than a bad date, though I can appreciate the sentiment that, after Bush, anything with a 'D' will do.

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Doubting Obamamania

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You are embarrassing yourselves. With your "Yes We Can" music video, your "Fired Up, Ready to Go" song, your endless chatter about how he's the first one to inspire you, to make you really feel something -- it's as if you're tacking photos of Barack Obama to your locker, secretly slipping him little notes that read, "Do you like me? Check yes or no." Some of you even cry at his speeches. If I were Obama, and you voted for me, I would so never call you again.

Obamaphilia has gotten creepy.

-- Joel Stein for The Los Angeles Times

Here is some counterveiling sentiment to our Obama dreaming. You do want to be wary about these kinds of things. We are risking more than a bad date, though I can appreciate the sentiment that, after Bush, anything with a 'D' will do.

( column )

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