Time out! Seriously you poked my eye dude! No zippy sides*! *whew*
I love Osama’s assertion that “We would like to rebuild Iraq and Afghanistan.” What part of the strategy of blowing up schools and marketplaces was intended to demonstrate Al Qaeda’s desire to get the Iraqi people back on their feet?
Truce? You think civilization is going to stop pounding on you because you yelled “Uncle-but-only-for-a-while-so-we-have-time-to-finish-planning-to-blow-up-more-buildings!”? No, of course you don’t Osama, you either think everyone’s stupid enough to consider your gesture genuine making you look good (the clear memory of a certain day in September puts pay to that as an effective strategy) or you’re genuinely up shit creek without a paddle.
Iraqi insurgents have decided that shooting your warriors is more productive than killing Americans so you want to ‘withdraw’ from Iraq. Just exactly how much do you have to suck to have other terrorists attack you instead of their arch rivals?
This message was probably recorded a few months ago as an emergency plan for if the Iraqi elections went ahead and the coalition remained in Iraq. I bet there were some sour faces amongst ‘Allah’s Faithful’ when it had to be pulled out of its box and handed to the press.
Losing and losing hard.
Later
John
* The phrase ‘No Zippy Sides’ comes from to the bolster pillow fights that my father and his brothers used to undertake when they were kids, the bolsters had a zip along one edge and hitting your opponent with that edge was considered un-sporting
Posted by John Swaine at January 20, 2006 12:47 AM