Whos your Dad-ullah?
by JohnHuang2
In a heavy blow for Democrats, the Talibans top operational commander, Mullah Dadullah, has been killed in Afghanistan, Reuters admitted over the weekend, tears rolling down their cheeks. The New York Times swiftly fingered the culprits in his slaying U.S.-backed Afghan and coalition forces. Perhaps to make themselves feel better, Democrats might want to hold hearings. Did the meanie Afghan and coalition forces place a panty on his head? Did they taunt him? Call him names? Did his Koran get hurt? Was this at a wedding party? Why no warning shots? After shooting him in the head, was the bullet to the stomach necessary? Or was there a second shooter behind the picket fence around Building 7 next to the twin cave towers? Dick Cheney! (John Edwards promised hed look into Building 7. If it doesnt mess up his hair.)
And while were busy asking completely idiotic questions, why are we policing a raging civil war in Afghanistan? The war there is between Afghans and Afghans lets pull out now!
The now dead Taliban honcho, Dadullah, was behind numerous head-hackings, assassinations and other religious activities, including many of the suicide bombings that have killed or wounded hundreds of Afghans in the last year and a half (NYT, 5/13). And he did all this with just one leg! Dadullah was a hero to the Jihad boys. Newsday reminiscenced as how, back in 2001, when U.S. forces evilly helped boot out the Taliban, the one-legged Dadullah was surrounded but escaped. That, and several false reports since then of his capture or death, helped him build an aura of invincibility. The media were so enamored of his aura that they claimed he would never be captured or killed. But the claim didnt have a leg to stand on.
You know things are going well in Afghanistan when months and months go by and you hardly hear about the place except when theres little choice, as happened here with this deadullah chap. After millions of miles of column space in the lead-up to the Afghan war insisting the Great Satan was doomed to defeat there just like the Russkies, in three weeks the doomed Great Satan romped to victory. Their Afghan sanctuary gone, al-Qaeda honchos like al-Zarqawi responded the same way the press responded by slipping Afghanistan down the memory hole and high-tailing it to Iraq (long before illegal Bushs illegal war in Iraq) to cook up another Quagmire to lose. Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan amazingly became al-Qaeda in Iraq. Bushs war in Afghanistan effectively pushed al-Qaeda into Iraq, rather than the other way around, which the Democrats keep insanely arguing. Jihad-wise, Taliban leftovers and severely damaged invincible auras are now all thats left in Afghanistan, with one-eyed Mullah Omar eyeing a replacement for the one-legged Dadullah. (According to Reuters, a replacement has been picked and the lucky chap is Mullah Dadullahs younger brother, Dullah, Dullah bo Fullah Bonna fanna fo Fullah.) The war in Afghanistan is going so well, Democrats pretend they support it.
In Zarqawis case, Iraq may not have been a great career move now that hes dead, but for Muslim freedom fighters looking for another virgin factory and for libbie agitproppers looking to sniff out the quagmire angle to Adolf Bushs War on Terror, Iraq was the place to get off. Anyway, if youre the bigshot al-Qaeda Planning Department head, you write-off the rickety backwater and look to put your best assets into Oil Treasure Trove Iraq and build the Caliphate from there, which is why Iraqs been the tougher nut for us to crack and why Afghanistan has gone swimmingly even though both countries got invaded by the same Great Satan.
So while Bush was bagging that Taliban biggie in Afghanistan, al-Qaeda was busy cushioning the blow with news from Iraq that theyd captured three U.S. soldiers in a deadly ambush the point being to win the PR battle by getting the Baathist Treason Lobby here (technically known as the Democrats) to seize on the ambush as proof the surge is a flop, so who cares what happened in Afghanistan with that Dadullah loser.
Based on the Viet Nam/83 Beirut truck bombing/93 Somalia model, al-Qaeda figures that if they feed their in-beds (journalists in bed with al-Qaeda or, MSM for short) enough crock about deepening quagmires and invincible insurgent auras, and make the war mostly about whos got the better PR game, they win. Game over. Its president B. Hussein Obama! So al-Qaeda and the Democrats bet the whole bank on agitprop head-hackings/car bombings>MSM gloom about head-hackings/car bombings>falling poll numbers>troop withdrawal>al-Qaeda victory! But agitprop alone wont work in the long run if the Great Satans got a ground game going (the surge) and that ground game keeps changing facts on the ground Anbar Sunni tribesmen stacking up al-Qaeda corpses at the morgue; Diyala Arab tribesmen turning on al-Qaeda; Iraqi forces getting in on the action big-time; unyielding sectarian violence yielding meekly to clear & hold; raging civil war keeps not raging, acutely imperiling civil war memes; the Mookster, sensing the jig is up, flees to Iran; the mighty Mahdi Army mightily no-shows; top al-Qaeda in Iraq honchos bagged; Iraqis, ignoring CNN, pouring back into Baghdad; bidnesses popping up everywhere; tips from locals on heroic freedom fighters way up; car-bomb factories getting raided and shut down al-Qaeda hardest hit, etc. And the full Surge hasnt kicked in.
You dont change facts on the ground from CBS/NBC/ABC studios in New York; the best al-Qaedas in-beds can do from there is shape perception but perception alone isnt enough if the guy the in-beds keep calling a warmonger Bush wont play along (refuses to lose the war for Democrats) and Democrats dont have the cojones to pull the plug on funding. And if you cant placate your Code Pinkster base anymore with benchmarks, non-binding resolutions, phony withdrawal timetables, vague goals, deauthorizations and two-month funding bills that go nowhere, then you know your whole electoral strategy is also in trouble. If youre a libbie, losing in Iraq means everything.
Democrats even got al-Qaeda peeved not going far enough for them either. Like Code Pink, its either pull the plug now or never. But Democrats keep alienating all their supporters. (All things considered, this is still the best Congress al-Qaedas ever had!)
And while were on the subject, Democrats loved to brag about how much support they have from foreign leaders. Yet they just lost Frances Jacques Chirac. They lost Canadas Paul Martin. They lost Germanys Gerhard Schroeder. So, wheres all this foreign support now? (Al-Qaeda doesnt count.) And even al-Qaeda seems shaky, if the latest attack video I alluded to is any indication.
With one brush and a full can of stupid, Democrats have brilliantly painted themselves into a corner. Their whole Have Your Quagmire And Eat It too jig is up. Poor, poor libbies.
Anyway, that's...
My two cents
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