Bin Laden Offers a Deceptive Truce
By Barbara Stock (01/22/06)
The rumors of Bin Laden’s demise were proven premature with the release of another al Qaeda diatribe about how Islam is winning the war and, oh, by the way: How about a truce?
As translated, bin Laden has come to this conclusion: “The wise ones know that Bush has no plan to achieve his alleged victory in Iraq.” Gosh, where might he have heard that statement? Anyone with the slightest understanding of Islam can read from this single statement that despite the daily suicide bombers who foolishly think they are sprinting to paradise and 72 virgins, al Qaeda is getting its Islamic behind kicked in Iraq.
Bin Laden would never even mention the word “truce” if that were not the case. Westerners recognize the word truce as a cessation of hostilities to hammer out a peace agreement or perhaps to gather and tend to the wounded. There were even occasions such as Christmas when both sides decided a break for the holiday was in order. To Muslims, the word truce means: time to re-group, re-arm, re-supply, re-deploy, and then attack without warning any enemy stupid enough to accept a truce with Muslims.
Sounding like a speech that could have been made by Senators Kennedy or Schumer, bin Laden continues: “To go back to where I started, I say that the results of the poll satisfy sane people and that Bush's objection to them is false.” The simple translation of that line is: Bush lied. Sound familiar? It should. It has been said by almost every powerful Democrat in Washington.
Bin Laden drones on with this remarkable admission of guilt: “Reality testifies that the war against America and its allies has not remained confined to Iraq, as he claims.” There you have it, al Qaeda’s admission of guilt in the deaths of innocent civilians in London, Madrid, and Bali. The fact is that there have been no further attacks HERE in America as bin Laden has repeatedly promised.
Always giving himself an escape clause, bin Laden claims that if there is not a successful attack here in the United States, it must be “God’s will.” Muslims always have an excuse for failure and that excuse is always, “It was not Allah’s wish.” Then can one flip that phrase over and claim that it was God’s will that American’s not die at the hands of cowardly Islamics who target children?
Perhaps the air in bin Laden’s cave is foul or he is getting a tad senile but his recollections of how he and his merry band of killers drove the Soviets out of Afghanistan seems to be a little clouded. Bin Laden fondly reminisces about the good old days of war and death when he says, “We have been tolerant for 10 years in fighting the Soviet Union with our few weapons and we managed to drain their economy. They became history, with God's help.” Osama seems to have forgotten it was not with God’s help that the Soviets were defeated; it was with the weapons supplied by the United States.
Interestingly, bin Laden expounds on the terrible things Americans are doing to the innocent Iraqi people. According to this man who has declared that babies are legitimate targets for his men, Iraqi women are taken hostage instead of their husbands and drills are used on prisoner’s joints. This charge is quite laughable when it is put next to the letter intercepted from bin Laden’s next in line, Al Zawahiri to Iraqi al Qaeda leader-in-waiting Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Zawahiri cautions Zarqawi not to kill so many Iraqi women and children--it just looks bad. He urges him to be more careful because the Muslim world is not pleased with the death toll of fellow Muslims and Zawahiri cautions that the Iraqi people may turn on al Qaeda instead of the evil infidel Americans.
Obviously as confused by the American polls as the leftist are, bin Laden proclaims that, “the U.S. opinion polls, which indicated that the overwhelming majority of you want the withdrawal of the forces from Iraq, but he objected to this desire…” How many times have the far-leftists declared the war in Iraq lost and that our broken, beaten troops should all be withdrawn now? A poll taken by CBS in December, the same month this bin Laden tape is said to have been made, only 28% of the American people wanted the troops completely withdrawn and Iraq left to the terrorists. Perhaps the abandonment of Iraq is just wishful thinking for both the leftists and bin Laden.
There is a serious side to this tape of bin Laden. The threat has been issued that plans are underway to attack the American homeland once again. There should be no doubt that al Qaeda terror cells are here, in America, waiting for their orders to carry out whatever heinous plot the terrorists have evolved. Americans have always known that it was just a matter of time before there was another attack. It is possible that this very tape is that signal. The problem for Americans, when the attack does happen: How do we retaliate and against whom?
It has been suggested that if another attack takes place, America should immediately destroy Mecca, the most holy place of Islam. While this might give us satisfaction, it would kill few terrorists and enrage even those Muslims who presently are not at war with us.
One option would be to take out the leadership of Syria and Iran immediately and without warning and snarl at Saudi Arabia to clean house now or we will. Every Islamic country should be given an ultimatum--turn over every member of any terrorist group or join the leaders of Syria and Iran in hell. The Palestinian problem will be solved, now. Hamas and Hezbollah will cease to exist along with a lot of Palestinians who refuse to put down their guns and suicide belts. Lebanon will also remove all terrorists from their midst and turn them over to the American forces or we will send our B-2 bombers to take care of the problem. If we miss the first time, we will keep coming back until they are gone or dead.
American leftists would scream about how barbaric something such as this would be but the instant and complete destruction of all those supporting or harboring terrorists is the only way to win this war. Every country on the face of the planet must realize that to accept known terrorists inside its borders will bring an instant cruise missile attack from the United States. The Pakistani tribal leaders who are probably protecting bin Laden must realize that each and every village will be leveled until bin Laden and company is found, killed, or turned over to the proper authorities. If they continue to protect him, they will die with him.
Never forget that America’s war is with the ideology of Islam, not with Muslims as a whole. It is Islam and its murderous ways that must be stopped. Unfortunately, there is no kind or benevolent way to win this war. War is what it is. In war, the innocent die. The innocent are dying right now, all over the world at the hands of Islam. It must be stopped and it must be stopped in its entirety. We can strike relentlessly now showing no mercy, or we can attack in a pin-prick manner that will only succeed in killing even more innocent people in the long run. The choice will be ours because Islamics are quite content with the situation as it is. Time, as it has always been is on their side.
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