How Does Al-Queda see our war effort?
This entry was posted on 3/10/2007 10:47 AM and is filed under WAR.
HOW DOES Al-Queda PERCEIVE OUR WAR EFFORT!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks to modern communications and the modern media, we are quite well
informed about how Al-Queda perceives things. Osama bin Laden is very
articulate, very lucid in the way he explains things. As he sees it,
and as his followers see it, there has been an ongoing struggle which
began with the advent of Islam in the 7th century with its drive for
world conquest and it has been going on ever since. It is an ongoing
struggle of attack and counter attack, conquest and reconquest, ending
so it seems in a final victory of the West with the defeat of the
Ottoman Empire in 1918 - the last of the great Muslim states - and the
partition of most of the Muslim world between the Western powers. As
Osama bin Laden puts it: "In this final phase of the ongoing struggle,
the world of the infidels was divided between two superpowers - the
United States and the Soviet Union. Now we have defeated and destroyed
the more difficult and the more dangerous of the two, the Soviet Union.
Dealing with the pampered and effeminate Americans will be easy." And
then followed what has become the familiar description of the Americans
and the usual litany and recitation of American defeats and retreats:
Vietnam, Beirut, Somalia, one after another. The general theme was:
They can't take it. Hit them and they'll run. All you have to do is hit
harder. This seemed to receive final confirmation during the 1990' when
one attack after another on embassies, warships, and barracks brought
no response beyond angry words and expensive missiles misdirected to
remote and uninhabited places, and in some places -- as in Beirut and
Somalia -- prompt retreats.
What happened on 9/11 was seen by its
perpetrators and sponsors as the culmination of the previous phase and
the inauguration of the next phase -- taking the war into the enemy
camp to achieve final victory. The response to 9/11 came as a nasty
surprise. They were expecting more of the same -- bleating and
apologies -- instead of which they got a vigorous reaction, first in
Afghanistan and then in Iraq, and as they used to say in Moscow: It is
no accident, comrades, that there has been no successful attack in the
United States since then. But if one follows the discourse, one can see
that the debate in the U.S.A. since then has caused many of the
perpetrators and sponsors to return to their previous diagnosis.
Because remember, they have no experience, and therefore no
understanding, of the free debate of an open society. What we see as
free debate, they see as weakness, fear and division. Thus they prepare
for the final victory, the final triumph and the final jihad.
