Barack Obama has conjured the prospect of an eventual end to the perpetual, largely covert, global "war on terror" launched by his predecessor, George W Bush, in response to the 9/11 attacks.
But while promising greater transparency on counter-terrorism, the closure of the Guantánamo gulag and restrictions on targeted assassinations by drones, Obama's heavily trailed and leaked policy speech on Thursday in Washington was expected to make clear that, on his watch at least, the US will continue to employ unapologetically unilateral, extra-judicial and lethal means to neutralise anybody it deems a threat to its national security.
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