Need anymore proof that Al-Qaeda is enjoying the Democrat victory on November 7th?
The latest audio by al Qaeda’s Iraq commander — posted 48 hours after the midterm elections — sends a clear signal to the readers of the jihadi strategic mind: Al Qaeda and its advisers around the world want to provoke an “American Madrid.” Portraying the United States as a bleeding bull in disarray, the war room projects its wish to see America’s will crippled. The video attempts to do the following:
1. Convince the jihadists that the United States is now defeated in Iraq and beyond. While no reversal of the balance of power has taken place on the ground, the jihadi propaganda machine is linking the shift in domestic politics to a withdrawal from Iraq. It projects the change in Washington as a crumbling of the political process in Baghdad and America’s foreign policy. Interestingly, others in the region are also “announcing” the upcoming defeat of America in the war on terror. Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah declared: “The Americans are leaving, and their allies will pay the price.”
2. Spread political chaos at home. Jihadists portray the Democratic takeover of Congress and the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld (and maybe others) as signs of American weakening in the resolve to fight jihadism. The video had a potential to frustrate U.S. citizens if it is not accurately interpreted by experts.[…]
3. The terminology used in the videotape is a powerful indicator that al Qaeda’s political network relies on Western-educated minds, familiar with political processes in the United States and serving as advisers to the jihadists.[…]
So what do the speechwriters want to achieve with these kinds of tapes? They aim at sapping American public morale during a time when reorganization is taking place in the U.S. government. Reading from the jihadi wishful thinking, the audiotape of al Muhajir and the statements made by other radical Islamists send the following message: Americans are being thanked for removing Mr. Bush’s party from the leadership of Congress, which the jihadists attribute to the war on terror rather than U.S. domestic problems. Al Qaeda’s audio tells citizens in the United States that they were wise for having responded positively to the previous messages by Osama bin Laden. Al Masri’s words aim at convincing the American public to pressure their newly elected legislators to pull U.S. forces hastily from Iraq.
In short, al Qaeda wants an American Madrid: it wishes that a change of power in January would be accompanied by a change of national determination, not just a change of course within Iraq.
In the Salafis chat rooms, the commissaries explained to their audiences, that the Democratic Party victory in Congress means that America is now divided and al Qaeda can push to create more cracks in the system — as it has successfully done in Spain. The masters of the forum, emulating al Masri’s audiotape, said not only that “we got their soldiers on the run in Iraq,” but “we got their citizens on the run on their own soil” referring to the November electoral outcome. They promised that with more killings in Iraq, they will break the will of Americans at home; and that the new Congress, seeking to fulfill one of its electoral promises will force the Bush administration to pack up and leave the Middle East.
I named this post after the quote from one of the terrorists for the simple reason that this quote should send chills down your spine. Will the Democrats now understand that running from a fight only emboldens the enemy? Will they understand that since they ran the election on the “Iraqi war bad” message and won our enemy can now see the fruits of their efforts? Their whole strategy was to wait us out. To create so much violence that the weak amongst us (Democrats) will demand a withdrawal. And it worked on November 7th.
But they had one small hitch in their plan. President Bush. I cannot believe Bush will run from Iraq. He understands the big picture while all the Dem’s and even some of the Rep’s do not. This is ONE front on our World War against terror, and a important front. If we don’t back down, if we finish the job, this will send the message to our enemy that we cannot be pushed around.
Of course we fight not only the enemy abroad but the enemy on our soil, ie. the MSM and the left, but as long as we have a strong leader such as President Bush maybe, just maybe, we can win this thing.
I shudder at what may happen after 2008 tho.
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I named this post after the quote from one of the terrorists for the simple reason that this quote should send chills down your spine. Will the Democrats now understand that running from a fight only emboldens the enemy? Will they understand that since they ran the election on the “Iraqi war bad” message and won our enemy can now see the fruits of their efforts? Their whole strategy was to wait us out. To create so much violence that the weak amongst us (Democrats) will demand a withdrawal. And it worked on November 7th.
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