Comments on: Like We Needed bin Laden to Explain This

By: StockBoySF

StockBoySF — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 06:45:24 +0000

CStanley: "It's whether their concern for the Palestinians is genuine or opportunistic."

Yes! Excellent point.

Bin Laden needs a continuing supply of fresh recruits to replenish his burned-out suicide bombers that he'll use whatever situation necessary to obtain support.

By: Silhouette

Silhouette — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:55:34 +0000

The lines really do get blurry don't they. You know, the ones between those hellbent on dissheveling the US in time of crises, and those who call themselves “americans”. If capitalism is taken to its extreme, I wonder if there is a bottom line to destroying one's own country if the need calls. Where are the terrorists? Is Bin Laden the only one who is slippery and hard to nail down? And why was his family in so tight with the Bush family? I know oil money but doesn't all this stuff really have a dark greasy dirty smudge of oil on it just about every way you turn.

; )

By: CStanley

CStanley — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:14:10 +0000

It's not a matter of whether or not bin Laden and his cohorts use this as a talking point against the US- it's whether their concern for the Palestinians is genuine or opportunistic. Given that the same militants who use this as their rallying cry have never pushed for an Arab solution to the crisis (which would include repatriation of exiled Palestinians who have ethnic ties to Egypt or Jordan, as well as pressure on wealthy Arab/Muslim nations to help establish a viable political entity to lead a peaceful 2nd state of Palestine.)

Since there's never been any support for either of those concepts from Islamists, I'd say the evidence points to 'opportunism'.

The reason that should matter to us when we receive these messages is it tells us that it wouldn't matter a bit if we altered our support of Israel.

By: yidwithlid

yidwithlid — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:24:45 +0000

.Jazz, for the first few years he blamed American presence in Saudi Arabia, it didn't become Israel after recruitment started to drop and he needed a way to become relevant again

By: Silhouette

Silhouette — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:06:57 +0000

"Now, in his latest greatest hits tape from a cave somewhere in Afghanistan,"
*****

Oh c'mon now... on-call celebrities like O. Bin Laden? He's probably broadcasting from a NY Penthouse provided for him by those folks who seem to profit the most from his timely distractions. A shave, a haircut and a nose job...you'd never notice him in The Big Apple.

But you know me, I'm just a conspiracty theorist right? lol..

By: Jules Crittenden » Not Liked Enough

Jules Crittenden » Not Liked Enough — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:46:24 +0000

[...] Moderate Voice is with Osama, hook, line and sinker. AQ was forced to attack us because of Israel. Ditch Israel now! Memo to Moderate Voice: You forgot the boots on the Arabian peninsula part, which was Saddam’s fault. That and the Caliphate restoration bit. Which is basically a “Whatever happened to the Greater Umma and how come all the pork-gobbling, alcohol-swilling infidels are running everything” argument. Hey, help me out here. If Israel is the root of it all, how come all the jihadis keep going to Iraq and Afghanistan and always leave the Palestinians hanging out there by themselves? Sheesh. Wrong way, guys. [...]