spacetropic

saturnine, center-right, sometimes neighborly

November 29, 2004

Nation of Patience

Either you choose to treat us with respect based on an exchange of interests ... or we will continue to fight you until you change your policies.

Pop quiz. This is a message from:

a) Hardcore Christians, to the people they see as coastal elites.
b) Obdurate Democrats, to the Bush administration.
c) Al Qaeda second-banana Al-Zawahri, to the Western world.

The correct answer is 'c'. But no matter what you picked, you're in the same boat. A videotaped message, recorded before the election (and notably lacking in nuance) includes this nugget:

Vote whoever you want, Bush, Kerry or the devil himself. This does not concern us. What concerns us is to purge our land from the aggressors.

And if you know your al-Qaeda geography, you know that "this land" includes Palestine, Iraq, the Saudi peninsula, and possibly suburban San Diego. To properly sketch out those borders we would need a more precise understanding of 8th-century gerrymandering.

At least Americans are now united by virtue of being equal opportunity targets. And if you're playing along at home, you may want to note that statements by Dr. Z track much more closely with subsequent terror attacks than statements made by Mr. Gangly.

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