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President Obama delivered what was billed by the White House as a "major" speech on national security Thursday at the historic National Defense University. In short, Mr. Obama thinks the War on Terror is over, and he won it. There may be a few final details to mop about, but it's time to move on to more important things. The speech was typical of Mr. Obama: Open with a broad sweep of history from the beginning of the republic to today. Follow that with a laundry list of all the great things he has done to reverse the bad things his predecessor did. Brush failures under the rug, blame them on others, or marks them as the inevitable course of history. Then finish with uplifting rhetoric, adding in a dash about the greatness of America. You walk away feeling you've been at a great meal but are somehow still hungry. The problem is there wasn't much meat on those bones. The only new thing the president did discuss was his drone policy and targeted killings. Even then, he didn't clari...
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