Al Qaeda Terrorists Want John McCain to Win?
Posted: Wednesday, October 22, 2008
by Mogama
http://www.mogama.info
The terrorist group of infamy, Al Qaeda, has posted an internet message that intimates they want to have an active role in the presidential elections underway in the United States of America.
It is not helpful to post the Internet link here.
This may be nothing more than hearsay at this point. But the report says the terrorists want to execute one big attack on the United States to blow the Bush administration to a loud end. The enemy believes such an attack before the November 4th elections will frighten Americans and rush them to the polls to elect the national security candidate, Senator John McCain.
Al Qaeda wants to defeat Obama? Something Hillary Clinton could not do? Something John McCain is finding hard to do? Can Al Qaeda really pull this off?
How strange is this thinking? At first, it certainly smells like a tank of stinking thinking.
How can Al Qaeda want McCain to win, when G. W. Bush, which McCain will micmick, has been the tough guy in the War On Terror, a war Mr. Bush has waged for over 5 years now? Bush has been the one smoking Al Qaeda out of their hell holes, killing leaders of the terrorist kingdom, though falling short of catching bin Laden. One would assume the terrorists would be very afraid of Bush or a Bush look alike by now. Bush has responded to their Jihad with one of his own. One would think they want nothing to do with McCain, who is likely to continue the Bush policy of taking the fight to Al Qaeda, as in "We must fight over there, so we don't have to fight them over here."
In a weird twist of thought, Al Qaeda is reportedly claiming that President Bush has actually been good for Al Qaeda and its cause around the world.
The big question is, "Why would Al Qaeda prefer a McCain victory as opposed to an Obama win?"
Our conservative friends usually link liberals to terrorists and like to say that the terrorists want a soft-on-war liberal in the White House. On the surface that notion seems to make much sense. To many Americans, anyway. But obviously not to Al Qaeda.
As I try to process this out-of-the-box idea, here is how Al Qaeda may be reading the situation.
First, by engaging Al Qaeda so directly, President Bush and Super Power America have actually made the terrorist network and their venerable leader, Osama bin Laden, more popular. Like never before they have become a household name. Why would they want to change that with an Obama win?
Second, America's continuing war with Al Qaeda in Iraq has drained the financial resources of the United States. Al Qaeda thinks this means America has fewer means to fight the War On Terror in other parts of the world.
Third, Al Qaeda may think the economic woes in America, Europe and elsewhere in the world are a direct result of America's obsession with and lavish spending on the war with the terrorists. The terrorist group sees this as part and parcel of its victory against America and the West. Al Qaeda has always intended its Jihad with America to harm the US economy. That is exactly what 911 and World Trade Center bombing before it were all about: tank the American economy. As long as America's economy is headed for recession, if it's not in one already, then the terrorist group must see that as a win in its column.
Fourth, if McCain is more likely than Obama to continue Bush's policy about the War On Terror, then that is good for Al Qaeda. Why? Because that will mean America continues to pour $10 billion per month down the Iraq War's bottomless pit, thereby guaranteeing the drain and strain on American resources. Music to Al Qaeda's ears. America spending more on the war is likely to further weaken America's standing in the world.
So there you have it. Al Qaeda wants to keep enjoy their new-found fame and popularity. Why would they want to step away from the spotlight now?
By this line of thinking, an Obama win will mean a less intensive war with Al Qaeda. Seems like bin Laden does not believe Obama's tough talk or does not take the Democrat seriously. Else the terror boss would be rolling up his sleeves, saying, "Bring it on!"
If Obama were to win the elections, with such a lull to follow, then that would mean America gets to keep more of her financial resources at home. And that in turn would help to turn America's economy around. And if you are bin Laden or Al Qaeda, that's the last thing you want to see happen for America.
Also, a President Obama may reverse America's downhill slip and slide on the world stage. That means America could recover from the image damage of recent years and somehow reclaim the mantle of World Lone Super Power, with the global clout that goes with that enviable crown.
Some experts on terrorism say there is nothing to the story of Al Qaeda salivating for a McCain win, but other terrorist watchers are not ready to toss this one to the wind.
Whether the website posting is genuine or not, we now have another way of looking at the debate about which candidate or party the people we call terrorists like to see in power in America. We can no longer flippantly opine that the bad guys over there prefer a presidential victory for a so-called weak-on-national-security Democrat to a presumed heroic, patriotic, take-it-to-the-terrorists Republican.
Politics can be more confusing than we think. Especially when you throw a group of terrorists in the mix, in the mess.
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