by Patrick D. O’Brien
Clarity & Resolve*
October 14, 2005
http://clarityandresolve.com/archives/2005/10/jihad_notes_fro_2.php
* Cross-posted with permission

CENTCOM has published the full version of the endearing piece of Islamocorrespondence from Papa Jihad’s cavemate/soulmate, Ayman al-Zawahiri to Jordanian mujahid emir upstart/infidel beheader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (although the birthday mix CD he burned seems to have gotten through—this time): ZAWAHIRI-ZARQAWI COMMUNIQUÉ

I think it’s important to underscore the continuing affinity between the holy warrior killers (Michael Moore’s Minutemen) who have their eye on the brass ring of Iraq, and America’s angry left who have their eye whatever they can use to condemn the U.S. Sometimes when I read the embittered, rambling screeds of Islamosupremacists, it seems to me that they are borrowing from the hackneyed drivel found on Democratic Underground, or vice versa. There’s always talk of it’s a war for oil (I’ll take my share of that free oil right now, by the way, if it’s all the same), the Zionists, and we need to force the American imperialists to go home. These Islamic lowlifes who slice the heads off of living civilians and who kill countless kids every day in deliberate attacks on civilian centers, are the new Che Guevara for the hateful leftocrat bloc.

Dissent and protest are vital components of a free society—true hallmarks of democracy—but making common cause with those who would destroy us because it suits ones political agenda is immoral, stupid, and dangerous. To obviate the predictable America is evil argument, yes, it is revolting to prop up tyrannical regimes like Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. These loathsome governments are the opposite of everything that a good American believes in, but at this point in time, we need them on our side. One hopes that eventually enough Americans will become sufficiently disgusted to change this. There is no reasonable or ethical justification, however, for supporting Islam’s totalitarian ideology of violent jihad purely out of political animus.

Back to our recently intercepted jihad love letter: the Egyptian pediatrician of mass murder for God implies that such support can be relied upon when he expresses his anticipation of an imminent withdrawal of American troops from Iraq, &agrave la Vietnam. I think it is critical for us to understand that our enemies recognize the invaluable generosity of America’s useful idiots for jihad and how to exploit it in the cause of their medieval fantasy of reestablishing khilafa (the transnational Islamic state, or Caliphate).

Things may develop faster than we imagine. The aftermath of the collapse of American power in Vietnam - and how they ran and left their agents - is noteworthy. Because of that, we must be ready starting now, before events overtake us, and before we are surprised by the conspiracies of the Americans and the United Nations and their plans to fill the void behind them. We must take the initiative and impose a fait accompli upon our enemies, instead of the enemy imposing one on us, wherein our lot would be to merely resist their schemes.

This is mentioned in the context of the mujahideen’s desire to establish in Iraq the foundation of a new Islamic world disorder—a neo-Caliphate built around the pure, undiluted corpus of the sharia, which is in turn founded upon the core principles of the Quran and the sunna (traditions, precedents, examples of Muhammad and his companions). In its non-spiritual dimensions, however, it’s the same thing as what we saw in Vietnam: a matter of political expedience in setting up a frontier base of totalitarian governance from which to eventually engage in expansionist hostility. This is all found in the teachings of mainstream Islam as per the Quran and sunna.

Whether or not one is willing to admit it, this part of al-Zawahiri’s missive to Junior Jihad is the implicit acknowledgment of the corrosive agenda of American politicide maintained and promoted by so much of our quagmire-obsessed Bush-hating media, our leftocratic ideologue friends in politics and academia, and their countless unwashed minions mobilized on the ground and online. These angry, spiteful die-hards will do anything to subvert and lash out at the America they hate in the hopes of somehow creating the idealized American utopia they currently have the freedom to envision and work toward. This phenomenon is—or at least should be—a crucial lesson from the American Vietnam experience.

The mujahideen, along with their passive and active backers and admirers among the umma (worldwide Muslim community), are well aware of the role that public opinion played in the departure of American troops from Vietnam. These people are barbaric, ruthless, and backward, but they are not dumb. They are shrewd and calculating in their understanding of how to exploit the tolerance and moral sensibilities of Western liberal democracy. The mujahideen also understand that a free people are by nature not inclined to war, and if their opinion can be swayed, it can be instrumental in ending a war, however just and vital to national and global interests the war may be.

Will Americans show the honesty and resolve needed to win this crucial conflict in our ongoing war on jihad—to let our troops fight and get the job done right? I have my doubts, but I hope that they turn out to be unfounded ones. I’m given to think that a large percentage of us still don’t quite understand how pivotal this battle is. And when we are constantly bombarded with cynical and misleading media coverage, reinforced by the ACLU and a cadre of disaffected university professors, their student lackeys, and the rest of the deranged sons and daughters of the West who are afflicted with terminal Irrational America Hatred Syndrome (IAHS), the picture can look a bit bleak.

One thing is clear in these confusing times: If you are hoping for our enemies to triumph in Iraq or elsewhere because you hate George W. Bush or because you disagree with the core values of the United States, you are a bad person and/or a bad American. History will remember.

Copyright ©2005 Patrick D. O’Brien: may not be copied, published, or otherwise used (except for quotes) without express permission of author. Originally posted at Clarity & Resolve.

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