After GWOT

I wrote in my TAP column last week that dropping the “war on terror” conceptual framework seemed implicit in a lot of President Obama’s actions and was key to his campaign promise to not just end the war in Iraq, but also the mindset that got us into war. Roger Cohen observes that in his al-Arabiya interview, Obama got closer than ever in explicitly doing this. And a good thing, too. I endorse Cohen’s whole column (incidentally, I feel like I used to disagree with Cohen a lot but don’t anymore — not sure who’s changed).