Terrorist Sandals
The Obama administration's pattern of targeted killings in the war on terror establishes an important conceptual point. It is now clear beyond dispute that the United States, on a bipartisan basis, fully embraces the paradigm that the threat of international terrorism is a matter of war, not a matter of law enforcement. And rightly so. That Obama presided over the killing of an American citizen like Anwar al-Awlaki marks a major advance in solidifying and legitimising the war paradigm. [Awlaki's] terrorist sandals may momentarily seem hard to fill, but as history demonstrates, not impossibly so. Lenin's death did not bring the end of Bolshevism; it brought Stalin.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/oct/02/anwar-alawlaki-war-alqaida/print
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