Bin Laden ends his maudlin nonsense by telling us Americans that "there is a lesson for you."In fact, there are three lessons: Al Qaeda terrorists are losing. Their only hope is to mimic critics in the United States for ideas about derailing American military and diplomatic efforts that are destroying them. And as they go down, they play the victim in desperate search of pity and thus reprieve.
For most Americans--nice try, but still no cigar.
While some Americans may want to negotiate or accept his offer out of pity or a feeling of guilt that he is right about his criticisms, we should never offer him a reprieve. Our only reply can be the one we gave to the Germans at Bastogne in December 1944 when the Germans offered us honorable surrender:
"Nuts!"
This has the further advantage of being an accurate psychological assessment of our enemy, too.
