Yes, al Qaeda is determined to prove that it just takes one side to make war:
In August 2013 America remains locked in a long war with militant Islamist terrorists because they remain locked in a war with us. As American soldiers say, the enemy gets a vote. Al-Qaida voted on 8-7-1998 and on 9-11-2001. The 9-11-2012 attack on our consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was another enemy war vote.
Yet in his February 2013 State of the Union address, President Barack Obama assured the American people that a decade of war was ending.
Yes, Obama said that. To make it worse, his bevy of media admirers responded with kudos.
Al-Qaida commanders heard Obama's February declaration of impending peace, and they beg to differ. Our security agencies are scrambling to defend our embassies. Police forces in major American cities are asking citizens to be vigilant. Apparently the end of war is not so nigh.
And for the one side making war, having an enemy who won't make war is fairly ideal.
All wars do eventually end, as the president said. But they don't simply end on his signature, no matter how inconvenient it is to his domestic agenda.
