But if the speech is remembered for anything years hence it will be as
the moment when the president declared 'The war on terrorism is dead!
long live the open-ended game of whack-a-mole against diffuse
networks!' Yes, that's right. Obama has rhetorically put to bed the
frankly silly GWOT terminology -- while obliquely calling for years of
low-grade conflict.
-- Dan Murphy, "Obama rhetorically ends 'the war on terror'" (Christian Science Monitor).