Bin Laden: We're Losing in Iraq
I'm amazed by the media's ability to ignore what's happening on the ground in Iraq when it fails to suit their agenda. Over at The Corner Victor Davis Hanson compares the turn-around to that which occuered during the summer of 1864.<
The comparison is, I believe, an apt one. Some of the similarities, which he doesn't discuss, are worth noting.
1) In the summer of 1864 everyone, including Abraham Lincoln himself, believed that his chances of being re-elected were practically nil.
2) In 1864 the Democrats chose General George B. McClellan as their nomineee - and adopted an extreme anti-war platform which he promptly reupidated.
3) In 1864, as I believe is the case today, the enemy knew that it had no hope of a military victory - and was therefore pinning its hopes upon a political triumph.
Now, we see this from the Long War Journal. It was part of Bin Laden's (or whoever is playing him these days) latest audio tape:
In closing, I tell our people in Iraq, the patient ones garrisoned on the first line of the religion and sanctities of the Muslims: the malice has increased and the darkness has become pitch black, and with the likes of you, nations reinforce themselves and climb summits.
If only our friends in the drive-by media would admit to it with as much candor as the other enemies of the West.
The comparison is, I believe, an apt one. Some of the similarities, which he doesn't discuss, are worth noting.
1) In the summer of 1864 everyone, including Abraham Lincoln himself, believed that his chances of being re-elected were practically nil.
2) In 1864 the Democrats chose General George B. McClellan as their nomineee - and adopted an extreme anti-war platform which he promptly reupidated.
3) In 1864, as I believe is the case today, the enemy knew that it had no hope of a military victory - and was therefore pinning its hopes upon a political triumph.
Now, we see this from the Long War Journal. It was part of Bin Laden's (or whoever is playing him these days) latest audio tape:
In closing, I tell our people in Iraq, the patient ones garrisoned on the first line of the religion and sanctities of the Muslims: the malice has increased and the darkness has become pitch black, and with the likes of you, nations reinforce themselves and climb summits.
If only our friends in the drive-by media would admit to it with as much candor as the other enemies of the West.
posted by Adam Yoshida at
11:02 PM
1 Comments:
I just can't see you as a fan of Lincoln. You love to talk about Lincoln, but from what I can tell about you, if you'd been alive back then, you'd have been one of those claiming that the Emancipation Proclomation was an unconstitutional infringement on "property rights" or something.
You'd have been one of those cheering Booth for shooting him.
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