If you listen to Sens. Ted Kennedy and Hillary Clinton, Reps. Nancy Pelosi and their flacks who dominate “news reporting” at MSM organizations, you’re hearing that now is “the best of times” for al Qaeda terrorists.
To hear Dem reporters and newscasters tell it, the Iraq War has so energized America’s enemies that recruits are flocking to al Qaeda and most of the world is tipping in its direction.
But that’s not what we learn when we read a letter a top al Qaeda leader wrote to terrorist al Zarqawi, who murdered so many innocents in Iraq, and is now thankfully dead as a result of an American bomb dropped on what al Zarqawi thought was a "safe house." Excerpts from the letter[Ed comments and bolds by Powerline’s John Hinderaker]:
The path is long and difficult, and the enemy isn’t easy, for he is great and numerous and he can take quite a bit of punishment as well. [Ed.: This is very different from how al Qaeda wrote about the U.S. after the flight from Somalia.]There’s much more at Hinderaker’s post. He provides context for the letter and his usual sound analysis.
I command you, my brother, and I am your brother and I have nothing except these words that are between the two of us and God as the third party, that you send messengers from your end to Waziristan so that they meet with the brothers of the leadership, and the rational and experienced people and the shaykhs here, because you have a greater chance to send messengers (brothers that you choose) than your brothers have here. [So al Qaeda's leadership is so pinned down that they can't even send messengers to Iraq.]
I am now on a visit to them and I am writing you this letter as I am with them, and they have some comments about some of your circumstances, may God guide you, with due confidence, affection, respect, and esteem. They wish that they had a way to talk to you and advise you, and to guide and instruct you; however, they too are occupied with vicious enemies here. [That would be us, I assume.]
They are also weak, and we ask God that He strengthen them and mend their fractures. They have many of their own problems, but they are people of reason, experience, and sound, beneficial knowledge. [Note: al Qaeda's leadership is "weak."]
Know that we, like all the mujahidin, are still weak. We are in the stage of weakness and a state of paucity. We have not yet reached a level of stability. We have no alternative but to not squander any element of the foundations of strength, or any helper or supporter.
If you only want to read the letter it’s here at West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center.
It's dangerous to underestimate your enemy's strength. It's also dangerous to overestimate the enemy's strength.
And America's hurt when politicians and their MSM flacks seek to gain partisan advantage in matters of national security.
Now before any one accuses me of being unfair to a certain party and much of MSM, someone please do this: compare the attention a letter such as the one excerpted here and many others like it have received from, for example, the NY Times and the Raleigh N&O compared to the attention those "news organizations" have given the "national security findings" of Rep. John Murtha and Activist Cindy Sheehan.
2 comments:
Profits before patriotism. Media get rewarded if they pimp for the defeatists and the enablers of jihad.
Being only schooled and not at all educated, they are too ignorant to realize how their value would drop to a fatal level if they were successful.
Dear Straightarrow,
I keep noting your comments and appreciating almost every one of them.
Don't be offended by the "almost every one of them."
When I look back on my old posts, I don't necessarily appreciate "almost every one of them."
And of course, there was in I think late Mar. your comment that went something like this: "I think I smell some Tawana Brawley."
Talk about calling it!
If you see this message, please let me know you have.
I want to be sure you know I read you're messages and ...
You can finish the rest.
All Good Things,
John
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