Today, Osama bin Laden both threatened the U.S. and, in the same fatwa, played to the weakness of Western civilization: those of the radical Left. From the AP:

Al-Jazeera on Thursday aired an audiotape from Osama bin Laden, who says al-Qaida is making preparations for attacks in the United States but offers a truce on “fair” but undefined conditions. The CIA has authenticated the voice on the tape as that of bin Laden, an agency official said. …

“We do not mind offering you a long-term truce with fair conditions that we adhere to,” he said. “We are a nation that God has forbidden to lie and cheat. So both sides can enjoy security and stability under this truce so we can build Iraq and Afghanistan, which have been destroyed in this war.

“There is no shame in this solution, which prevents the wasting of billions of dollars that have gone to those with influence and merchants of war in America,” he said.

Translation of “long-term truce with fair conditions:” al-Qaeda is hurting badly; it wants time to regroup so that it can eventually kill all us infidels and then establish a world-wide Islamic caliphate.

I can already hear those of the radical Left: “C’mon… can’t you see? He’s suing for peace! He’s reasonable. Give peace a chance.”

9/11 and 3,000 dead already forgotten. It was our fault, by the way.

Too much fear; too little intelligence.

Dear Osama: This is a fight to the death that you started. We’ll finish it. Take your “truce” and shove it.