Politics: Is the bastard clever or dumb?
So we all need to ask this question: Is Osama Bin Laden an idiot or know America very well?
The obvious reading of the text follows here:
Diaa Rashwan, a Cairo-based expert on extremist Muslim militants, said bin Laden was trying to influence Americans "to give Kerry their votes, not Bush."
Of course, the flip-side:
<>Does OBL think we're a bunch of Spaniards? If he really thinks this helps Kerry's chances, he obviously has no concept of the American "fuck you" attitude to anybody telling them what to do. Every liberal commentator on the planet knows that an OBL "endorsement" of Kerry dooms Kerry. October surprise! Actually catching OBL probably couldn't be a bigger Bush boost than <>this. So I still want to know: is OBL stupid, and thinks we're Spaniards; or does can he see beyond the nose of his camel and know that his endorsement of Bush destroys Kerry, who might fight something that resembled an effective war on terror? I don't know. And neither do you.
Either way, I'd REALLY like to kick the dude in the balls about five thousand times. Not that he has any.
Interestingly enough, nobody batted an eyelash when terrorists in Iran supported president Bush. And given Iran's links to 9/11 according to the 9/11 commission, somebody in the mainstream missed the boat to push a pretty salient point.
3 comments:
I don't think it's Osama who's dumb (although he is evil); it's the American public. My first reaction to seeing the video is "Why is this guy on my TV screen instead of dead? Oh right, because Bush is in office." I doubt that I was voicing the mainstream opinion though.
Oh he's got balls. He fought the soviets to a stand still and hejust got the United States to trash its good name and creat several hot spots o chaos and anarchy, perfect recruiting tools for an organisation such as his.
I think this guy knows the US and knew exactly how we would respond to being hit, that we would hit back. He also knows our president and the people around him and knows how they would respond (indeed as Bush is a fundamentalist himself then I yould say that Osama bin Ladin knows Bush better than Garrett or I). All that al Qaida had to do was hit us once and then watch the fireworks.
We all think in terms of fighting a physical enemy, and so we tried to find one. They were thinking in longer terms, of creating hate, chaos, mistrust and fear, the best recruiting atmospheres for a religion. As well as letting us beat ourselves. We are draggin our ideals and good name through the mud. President Bush and the top political figures of the United States talk about the 'Free' world (a seriously out of date term) and furthering 'Freedom' across the world. How do they define 'Free'?
Free from law? yes we have done that, the only law in Afghanastan, Kosavo, Iraq and verious other places extends only where large police and military presence exists (ie. the cities).
Free from tyranny? How do you define what a good government is? The one you like? the one that works? Well they all work for certain group, for instance Russia will not have a good democracy for a long time, they much prefer to have one strong person in power who will be there for a long time, unlike the US wherein we get bored so quickly that we need to have constant change and stimulus (which seems to describe why, as a people we are so overstimulated that we don't really know what to do with ourselves anymore).
Free from fear? a peaceful, content place? well Pax America is over. The fear rhetoric that is being spread by the government is not the rhetoric reserved for a 'free' nation.
Look at the hits al Qaida has made since Sept 11 2001(not the 1973 9/11, thats another story). Spain, spain is a nation of people who merely want to kick back and have fun, they don't want to be the best or ride the work of pain. They had enough crusading and fighting, the reconqista, 13 years fighting Napoleon (continuous), their own civil war as well as two war's of sucession. France has not been hit, and they are fighting the spread of religion harder than we are. There is a great deal of Steel in the backbone of the French (the only ones who stand up to us and we call them cowards all the time). Australia, well that was a miss they reelected their head of state.
These targets are all indicative of ailienating the US from the rest of the world, Spain was set to reelect it president even because of the War in Iraq, Austrailia was hit long ago and not recently because it looked as if their head of state would lose the upcomming election, and France, who has been harder on Muslims than we have, hasn't been hit or hurt because they already stand up against the US.
I may be giving more credit where credit is due, but I think Osama is a brilliant commander, and damn well knows how this campaign is to be played. Shoot the little upstart is beating the best army in the world by not fighting fair (hmm that sounds familiar, harken ye back to 1775, our founding fathers would today have been called terrorists).
I just wanted to say, don't take Osama bin Ladin for a coward, remember he was taught by our own government and army trainers that in a gurilla war civilians are viable targets. Damn I wish we would have kept a better leach on all the terrorists we train and fund.
kevin
i hope you don't work for a subsidiary of disney. you'd be gone quicker than you can say politically incorrect...
i see your point, but bin laden isn't really using this as a tool to convert people to islam. Your comment: "They were thinking in longer terms, of creating hate, chaos, mistrust and fear, the best recruiting atmospheres for a religion." could be taken as insulting to muslims all over the world.
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