President Barack "Obama's new counterterrorism strategy, released in June [28] 2011, charted a course for the second decade of the war on terror. Bin Laden's recent death and the revolutions sweeping the Middle East, it said, had 'changed the nature of the terrorist threat,' because they had diminished 'the relevance of al-Qa'ida and its ideology.' It called on the United States to keep the pressure on al Qaeda be encouraging responsive government and respect for rights and the rule of law. It would also be important for the United States to dismantle terrorist safe havens in Pakistan, from which al Qaeda continued to husband its strength and plan future attacks."
– Foreign Affairs, The U.S. vs. al Qaeda, 271