Usama Speaks

It is a peculiar condition in the United States that when murderers speak in the media everyone is rapt with attention. No mass murderer conveys that notion better than Usama Bin Laden. After his latest vitriolic speech was released yesterday it seemed that everyone, from the postman to the girl behind the counter at the deli, had an opinion on what it meant. The substance of the speech could have been written by Michael Moore, MoveOn.org and the rest of the far left apologists here in the US, but the spirit was meant, I am sure, to warn us of an impending attack.

It is an historical maxim that Muslim warriors from Mohammed, to Salah-ah Din, to Bin Laden, have always offered these types of statements immediately before attacking. The statement sent to Constantinople right before its fall in 1453 mirrors Bin Laden's language. So, the offer of a truce is more than disingenuous, it is an established tactic of lies and deceit; a practice the Quran specifically allows when dealing with infidels. Funny how Bin Laden fails to mention that when he speaks of being, "a nation to which God has disallowed treachery and lying." Moreover, when Bin laden quotes polls in the US he is, in effect, talking to the far left, "Keep it up. Convince that thick-headed Bush to quit Iraq." This, too, has always been a tactic of the Muslim warrior. They believe in fanning the fires of dissent to tear apart confederations they could not otherwise dominate. That's exactly how they took parts of Europe in the 15th century; by fostering animus between the Catholic and the Eastern Orthodox Churches.

I am certain the hand-wringing set of the fringe left will shortly take up the call to negotiate. "You see," they will say, "it's all our fault. He really wants peace." Well, his own words belie that notion in spirit, and deed. He leaves no doubt that he would consider it a win if we were to leave Iraq now. Bin Laden himself calls the war in Iraq, "a point of attraction and recruitment of qualified resources." Are we to believe that a pull-out now of American forces would send those resources back to the bazaars and date farms? He also mentions attacks that are currently in the planning stages here in the US. Would those resources pack up and leave if a truce was offered? If you did not have a reason to back the NSA program which was revealed to be tapping phone calls of foreigners here in the US, you should now. Some citizens may have had their phones tapped too, but only those calling persons of interest in other countries. Of course, reasonable discourse is impossible with those who believe that there is never, ever a reason to go to war. So, convincing them of this fact is not worth the air I would expend trying, but for those who truly understand that there is no way to negotiate with these monsters this speech should be the final piece of the puzzle. We cannot negotiate a truce with monsters. We must kill Bin Laden and his followers. Bin Laden is a murderer who, no matter what Michael Moore tells you, murdered 3,000 of my fellow Americans because they had the temerity to go to work on time one sunny Tuesday morning in September. Not that you should need a reason beyond that why we should not negotiate, but if you do, here it is: murderers do more than kill, they also lie.