My latest in PJ Media:
“When people see a strong horse and a weak horse,” Osama bin Laden once famously quipped, “by nature they will like the strong horse.” America during the period in which Old Joe Biden continues to pretend to be president of the United States is decidedly a weak horse, and bin Laden’s old outfit has noticed. Last Wednesday, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) released a video crowing over the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan and promising to inflict damage on the scale of 9/11 in America once again.
The video, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), featured yet another jihadi who was once held at Guantanamo, Ibrahim Al-Qousi, and was entitled “A Message to the American People: You Have Yet to Understand the Lesson.” Al-Qousi showed that he himself has carefully absorbed the lessons of the recent past. He said that “the greatest loss America suffered, besides its material and human losses, is its reputation and prestige as a superpower and the most powerful country in the world.” Thanks, Joe!
The Taliban, Al-Qousi declared, had won a “magnificent” victory, for they “have understood the essence of this religion and the nature of the conflict … they are men whose hands — by the grace of Allah alone — buried a third empire in the soil of Afghanistan and restored the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan to rule by the shari’a of Allah, even if America and its allies hate it.”
If there is anything that the State and Defense Departments did not or would not understand, it was the role that religion played in the conflict. Foreign policy experts for years dismissed statements akin to Al-Qousi’s declaration that victory was won in Afghanistan “by the grace of Allah alone” as mere boilerplate, not realizing that for the Taliban, it was the essence of the entire war. That’s why they’re in power today in Kabul, thumping their chests over having defeated the United States.
Al-Qousi sneered at Old Joe’s claim that the U.S. “succeeded and achieved the goals for which the war was launched,” that is, the killing of bin Laden and the assurance that Afghanistan “will not be a base from which jihadi groups threaten the security of America and its allies.” The jihadi asked: “Was it really worth America paying these heavy costs to achieve these two goals? Could America not have achieved these by any other way to avoid such significant losses?”
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gravenimage says
Al-Qaeda Threatens U.S. With Attacks ‘More Painful Than 9/11’
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Yes–Biden’s weakness is certainly emboldening Jihadists, endangering us all.
Walter Sieruk says
Al Qaeda would if it could. The evil scheming insidious murderous Islamic intentions of the jihadists of that Muslim terrorist organization has no limit in their deadly and destructive jihad for the cause of Islam have no limit.
Therefore it needs be reiterated that we ,as Americans, should not live in fear and be afraid to go to different places and do different things, nevertheless we still should stay aware of our surroundings for someone of something that seems odd or out of place. As in “What’s wrong with this picture ?” If so then inform the police about it .
As it has been said “If you see something, say something” To put this in another way the wisdom of Thomas Jefferson applies to the American citizens even more now than in his own time.
For Mr. Jefferson had declared “Let the eye of vigilance never be closed.”
gravenimage says
Agreed, Walter. Altnough in too many places Infidels who point out Muslims behaving threateningly are excoriated as “Islamophobes”. That should not stop us, though.
leonard Dunnet says
The President brain is missing Biden strikes again. He will be remembered for the armagedon he is about to create.
Kesselman says
A weak president is always more dangerous to all of us, and Psychopaths always find the weak spot. Given the fact that fascists are categorized as such makes it crystal clear that the man calling himself POTUS is not the man.—To deal with psychopaths you need an old-fashioned top dog, a beast outmaneuvering the vile animals in all aspects of warfare.
OLD GUY says
What this boils down too, is that we in the west will have to be vary vigilant, be able to defend ourselves and then defend ourselves from our own government in the courts for self defense.
Our weak over liberal political leaders are putting us in grave danger.
spiro says
Our brain dead leaders have brought the enemy within
and expect to be honored for their folly
What could possibly
go wrong