WASHINGTON (AP) – Smart people in the Obama administration have spent the last two days telling the American people that U.S. strikes against the Khorasan Group were necessary to disrupt “imminent attack plotting” against U.S. and Western interests.
They warned that members of the shadowy Khorasan Group, an al-Qaida offshoot, were “nearing the execution phase” of an attack in the U.S. or Europe.
They spoke of “active plotting that posed an imminent threat.”
People may have come away with the impression that the terror group was on the brink of pulling off something awful.
Perhaps not.