"Elderly people, children and women fled their homes and lived in tents as refugees after they have lived in dignity in their homes," bin Laden said. "Let the American people be ready to reap what the White House leaders have sown," he added.
"Obama and his administration have sown new seeds to increase hatred and revenge on America," bin Laden said. "The number of these seeds is equal to the number of displaced people from Swat Valley."
Pakistan's military offensive to expel the Taliban from Swat Valley was launched in late April after the militants abandoned a peace deal with the government that gave them control of the region.
Good grief. The problem isn't that jihadis are killing people and imposing their theorcratic hell-on-Earth on people who hate the jihadi world view. The problem is that people who oppose the jihadis (including America) are fighting back! Resisting the jihadis is oppressing Moslems! That is what bin Laden is arguing!
This is the thinking in much of the Moslem world that drives me batty (heck, too many here who wonder "why they hate us" as if we're at fault believe it, too). Too many in the Islamic world nod in agreement with this thinking. It is all a "Crusade." And as I've written in the past (and as Strategypage has certainly noted repeatedly), the original Crusades were actually efforts to recapture what the Moslems had captured from the Christian world by force of arms. Why is resistance to Islamic expansion by violence the act of aggression?
And you wonder why this is the Long War?
