From The Daily Star:
Let's try for a moment to read the mind of an Al-Qaeda operative in the remote mountains of Waziristan as he listens to the news on the radio. His worldview has been roiled recently by two events - one confounding his image of the West and the other confirming it.
The upsetting news for our imaginary jihadist is the election of Barack Obama as president of the United Sta
The upsetting news for our imaginary jihadist is the election of Barack Obama as president of the United Sta
The upsetting news for our imaginary jihadist is the election of Barack Obama as president of the United States. This wasn't supposed to happen, in Al-Qaeda's playbook. Their aim was to draw the "far enemy" (meaning America) ever deeper onto the battlefields of Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Instead, the jihadists must cope with a president-elect who promises to get out of Iraq, and whose advisers are talking about negotiating with the Taliban. And to top it off, the guy's middle name is "Hussein."
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