Never mind that the Islamists had little problem recruiting jihadis to wage war on the West (and moderate Moslems) long before March 2003. And never mind that the Iraq-centric explanation kind of misses the point of what sides will do when at war. And never mind that the jihadis never agreed with our anti-war Left that only Iraq--and not Afghanistan--was the "bad" war.
But I digress.
Now, we find the darkly humorous situation of the pro-American Iraqi government catching a jihadi inside Iraq who apparently wasn't worked up enough any more by the American presence in Iraq to wage jihad. No, he planned murder and mayhem because he is upset about cartoon portrayals of Mohammed and accusations that Islam is violent:
An alleged al-Qaida militant detained in Iraq said Tuesday he had talked to friends about attacking Danish and Dutch teams at the World Cup in South Africa next month to avenge insults against the Prophet Muhammad.
Iraqi security forces holding Saudi citizen identified as Abdullah Azam Saleh al-Qahtani arranged for The Associated Press to interview him at an unidentified government building in Baghdad. He said he initially came to Iraq in 2004 to fight Americans and was recruited by al-Qaida.
We're getting back to 9/10 thinking (or at least pre-Iraq War thinking) in the jihadi world, when anything will set them off.
It is besides the point to wonder whether this man could carry out the attack. The point is that he wanted to carry out the attack and why he was motivated to carry out the attack.
We need to stop making excuses for jihadi willingness to kill us. They'll kill us for any reason at all, whether it is
Kill them all, let Allah sort them out.
