Evil Does Not Die of Natural Causes - HUMAN EVENTS: "WASHINGTON -- Two months and a day before 9/11, terrorism expert Larry C. Johnson published 'The Declining Terrorist Threat,' a New York Times op-ed decrying the fact that 'Americans are bedeviled by fantasies about terrorism,' when, in reality, 'the decade beginning in 2000 will continue the downward trend' in lethal terrorism.
Not quite.
A decade later, Osama bin Laden is dead and the old chorus of pre-9/11 complacency has returned. The war on terror is over -- yet again, it seems. Bin Laden was but 'a distraction,' writes Peter Beinart, and the war on terror 'a mistake from the start.' 9/11 was nothing more than 'an isolated case,' argues Ross Douthat. And 'bin Laden was always the weak horse.'"
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