That's my not thoroughly examined interpretation.  Spend some quality time with your favorite search engine, e.g. using R. Stacy McCain as a starting point (CJ claims he's racist), and you'll find plenty of others.<p>Or are you questioning my "as the jihadist threat receded"?  In that case, I mean that it's receded in the  minds of Americans due to a lack of successful attacks in the West or on Westerners (e.g. Bali).  India, for example, has a rather different interpretation on that, and of course we in the US have seen at least three serious attacks in 2009, two successful (at that Arkansas recruiting center, Ft. Hood and of course the Knicker Bomber).