{"id":37139,"date":"2013-05-29T17:16:11","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T16:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/obama-spinning-war-on-terror\/37139\/"},"modified":"2013-05-29T17:16:11","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T16:16:11","slug":"obama-spinning-war-on-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/obama-spinning-war-on-terror\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Spinning War on Terror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ben Shapiro<\/strong><br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/benshapiro\/2013\/05\/29\/obama-declares-war-on-terror-over-n1607729\">townhall.com<\/a><br \/>May 29, 2013<\/p>\n<p>In a hallmark speech last week, President Obama unilaterally declared the war on terror over. The end of that war, Obama stated, meant we could return to the halcyon days of the Clinton-era law enforcement, during which America experienced a spate of terrorist attacks ranging from the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993 to the Khobar Towers bombing in 1996 to the bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 to the USS Cole bombing in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>What justified Obama\u2019s announcement?<\/p>\n<p>Nothing, except his need to pacify his leftist base. With scandals brewing on the home front \u2013 the Internal Revenue Service targeting of conservative non-profits, the Department of Justice targeting of journalists \u2013 President Obama must shore up his left or face the prospect of being an early lame duck.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/benshapiro\/2013\/05\/29\/obama-declares-war-on-terror-over-n1607729\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      &lt;!&#8211; <\/p>\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n<p> &#8211;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>This article was posted: Wednesday, May 29, 2013  at  11:05 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\" \/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\" \/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\" \/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\" \/>&lt;!&#8211; this is where we need to show the related articles  <\/p>\n<div class=\"related_articles_container\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">Related Articles<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8211;&gt; <\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/obama-spinning-war-on-terror\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Obama Spinning War on Terror\">Infowars<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Shapirotownhall.comMay 29, 2013 In a hallmark speech last week, President Obama unilaterally declared the war on terror over. The end of that war, Obama stated, meant we could return to the halcyon days of the Clinton-era law enforcement, during which America experienced a spate of terrorist attacks ranging from the first attack on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-37139","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}