After eight years of listening to Al-Qaeda talk about its hatred towards America and Bush’s incompetence and hedonism , it seems that the incoming administration will have to suffer the same fate.
In a recent article, Al-Qaeda spokesman Al-Zawahiri said that Obama “kills your brothers and sisters in Gaza mercilessly and without affection,” and called Israel’s defense against Hamas in Gaza “Obama’s gift to Israel.” So, in a very restrained effort to bypass delving into the fallacies and lies in Al-Zawahiri’s statement, let’s examine one overlying point that basically summarizes the entire article.
It seems that Al-Qaeda’s titles of Bush being the instigator of problems and great white oppressor are not quite as distinctive as previously thought. Despite all of the hope for Obama change, it appears that the incoming president will soon be adopting similar pet names from the terrorist organization. But how could that be? Obama is not even president yet. Obama did not initiate the war on terror in Afghanistan. Obama did not invade Iraq. Obama did not pursue Al-Qaeda terrorists and associates. So why does Al-Qaeda already disapprove of Obama if he isn’t the one who has been bringing this harm upon America?
Answer: because he is America’s representative, a country which sides with Isreal. It doesn’t matter who is in the president’s chair; Al-Qaeda is a radical organization that hates America and everything it stands for. It won’t change.
This is all very expected. I’m still baffled by those who maintain that Al-Qaeda’s hatred towards the United States is circumstantially based on our foreign policy. I’m quite certain that, even if we removed U.S. support of Israel from the equation (support which, during the recent conflict, has only equated to a tendency to verbally ‘side’ with Israel but call for restraint on both sides), Al-Qaeda’s polemic hatred towards all thing American would not cease or even diminish.
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