Smoke ‘em Out
Joe’s post about al-Qaeda’s recent foray into racial commentary raises an easily-overlooked opportunity. For years, the United States was plagued in its Cold War battles with the USSR because our domestic racism was so easily wielded against our protestations of righteousness and morality. Why not learn from our own mistakes? Racial progress tends to smoke out the reactionaries, as al-Zawahiri as so conveniently demonstrated. I wonder how well his racist commentary will play in Pretoria, and the rest of sub-Saharan Africa?
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Well, one thing is for sure, Obama is not going to say anything about it till he is President. I think that that is a good strategy. Bush is clearly punting on the economy and going to let the economy go to hell until he leaves office. By not saying anything now, Obama allows Bush to get the full blame for his betrayal of the country.