Praise Allah and pass the ammunition

The Washington Times ^ | 10/13/10 | Matt Patterson

[workerbee]

The extent to which the enemies of America abroad ape the anti-Western rhetoric of Western intelligentsia never ceases to amaze. The latest example features none other than Osama bin Laden, who in a recently released Internet recording lamented the massive flooding in Pakistan, for which he blamed - wait for it - climate change.

In the message, a voice believed to be bin Laden's proclaims, "The huge climate change is affecting our nation and is causing great catastrophes throughout the Islamic world," which "calls for generous souls and brave men to take serious and prompt action to provide relief for their Muslim brothers in Pakistan." But as John Collins Rudolf reminds us on the New York Times' Green blog, it's not the first time bin Laden has so railed:

"In an audiotape obtained by al Jazeera in January, the al Qaeda leader dedicated virtually an entire speech to the subject and laid particular blame on former President George W. Bush for failing to curb greenhouse gas emissions."

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America's enemies are attracted to the arguments and rhetoric of the elite Western left for a simple reason: They share with the left the same hatred - for Western culture, especially capitalism - and the same goal - the diminution of Western (and especially American) power. Prominent left-wing scholars Frantz Fanon and Edward Said have synthesized the socialist critique of Western values with Third World anti-colonial fervor for legions of liberal academics and commentators, who like their ugly anti-American hatred dressed up in pseudo-intellectual ribbons and bows. This intellectual and spiritual alliance between the Western left and foreign anti-American radicals is poised to deliver a victory for al Qaeda of the kind that never could be achieved on the battlefield.

[workerbee]

Our national debt - not yet two years into the Obama presidency - is a whopping $13.6 trillion, or 92 percent of gross domestic product. Some analysts, however, suspect the real number could range from $60 trillion to $200 trillion once you add in all unfunded federal liabilities. This is a fiscal house of cards that is destined to collapse, and catastrophically so. The sociopolitical chaos that will ensue can only be imagined. It also may be imagined that, wherever he is, if he still is, the chaos will give great comfort to Osama bin Laden and company.

[xtinct]

further proof that the jihadists and liberals are cut from the same cloth...

sick and tired of these leeches....

[LibLieSlayer]

binny is dead... and has been... and this is just some terrorist that works in al qaeda’s propaganda division... probably somewhere in the abc/cbs/nbc/cnn/msnbc studios.

LLS