WRT: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mukto-mona/message/48503
"Fatah says he hopes to reach the neo-conservative proponents of the so-called war on terrorism and make them realise that their warmongering has been the best thing that has happened to the Islamist proponents of a worldwide jihad. "The invasion of Iraq was manna from heaven for Al Qaeda. Bin Laden could not have asked for anything more. I hope that the conservative Republicans in the United States and their neo-conservative allies in the West will realise that in the battle of ideas, dropping bombs helps the foe, not the friend."
Reply:
I respectfully disagree with the above statements. If we look back at the time of Bill Clinton, a Democrat President, there has been attacks on Americans in America and abroad. Bill Clinton's responses were mild, which only emboldened Jihadists around the world. They used those attacks and responses from American administration as barometer for their future plans, one of which was the attack on 9/11. If we compare Beirut bombing, a response from Regan, a Republican President, after the Pan-Am Bombing, we see that Ghaddafi totally turned 180 degree from his previous position. With these two examples I want to convey that, type of response do matter.
Based on recent reports (in The New Republic & Wall Street Journal), George Bush, a Republican President, has been quite successful with his response to 9/11. Now, we hear about bin Laden's Libyan former companion-in-arms, Norman Benotman's public rebuke of al-Qaeda and their affiliates, which shows that strong response do work. George Bush may have been successful.....Now, we hear about people like Tarek Fatah and other secularists, who are voicing their opposition and criticism openly, which will turn the tide against al-Qaeda and other Jihadi organizations.
Jiten Roy
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