Oh yeah, our enemies are boasting of our doom again. And some Westerners eat this up and like to warn us to RUN AWAY BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!!!!
A man educated only in the strictest of fundamentalist Islamic schooling, Mullah Omar has developed a more complex understanding of his enemies in the last year. He alludes to his learning curve in the statement as a sign the Taliban are getting closer to victory. In this message he tries to persuade Europeans to break with America and clearly understands that war weariness is higher in Europe than in the U.S. But he also tries to reach out to anti-imperialists in the West at large and urges them to stop fighting for “a small number of capitalists and suckers of blood.”
In another message last week, the Taliban also lauded the Fort Hood massacre as a sign the jihad is reaching into America itself and appealed to all Muslims in America, especially in the military, to follow the gunman’s example and attack American soldiers whereever they are in the world. Such acts of violence and martyrdom are fully sanctioned by Islam, the Taliban says, and should be repeated. So if Obama and his team are now ready to “finish the job,” so too is the Taliban leadership.
Yeah. I love how Westerners impose the latest Leftist thought on our enemies' thinking. Omar has a more complex understanding of his enemies? Really? Anyone not on his side is an infidel and will be killed, and that's complex thinking? I guess we'll need to reappraise that whole Left critique of "with us or against us," eh?
And is his call to win really a big surprise? Our enemy wants to win? Huh. Fancy that. Hey, who can blame Omar for screeching at us? It might work given the state of our vocal class. It's worked before. More important than the blood-curdling murdering impulses that Omar represents is our president's determination to see Omar and his world view hacked to bits and left to die in Afghanistan. We can beat us. Omar can't.
I'm not saying we shouldn't take our enemies seriously. We need to treat them as actors intent on victory and work to beat them. Victory is not our birthright. But our enemies have far more problems than we have. Loud pronouncements on our impending doom make for better headlines than our relentless campaign to kill our enemies and deprive them of popular Afghan support (NOTE: I fixed the wording here), but in the end their video releases are just poo flinging and chest pounding. Ask Moqtdada Sadr, who elevated chest thumping and poo flinging to an art form that Western reporters ate up.
Step out of the way when the Omars of the enemy rant, people. That's the smart thing to do.
And then kill them, of course. They are the bad guys, remember?
