Just What I Was Thinking.

Jeff at Protein Wisdom has his usual perfect take on Al-Zawahri's recent video rant. Jeff writes in just the right tone of sarcasm that I have come to love so much.

"Anybody else find it curious that Ayman Al-Zawahri, one of the leaders of a medievalist death cult bent on reestablishing the caliphate and spreading Shari’a law at the tip of a sword, is on tape talking about a “war for oil" and likening the US campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq to Vietmam? I mean, you’d think he’d be more interested in, say, Andalusia and the Crusades.

Not that I’m suggesting Zawahiri’s comments were influenced by Western politicos and their partisan political mouthpieces in the media who’ve shown a tendency to provide al Qaeda with rhetorical cover, mind you. Such an argument is just a silly wingnut fantasy, after all—a desperate attempt by chickenhawks to divert blame from the real reasons for terrorist grievances (namely, that we’re stealing their oil and fighting an illegal Vietnam-type war, to name just two...).

Anyway, I’m not passing judgment. Just, y’know—making an observation..."