A national security analysis now tells us that Al-Qaida may be on the verge of decline. Apparently you can’t go on indefinitely with indiscriminate killing and maiming without losing appeal in the Muslim world. This is a very good sign.
Another positive turn is the curious post-election, Web message sent by Al-Qaida deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri. Clearly concerned about the Ultimate Un-Bush as U.S. president, he ridiculed President-elect Obama by labeling him a “house negro.”
In so doing, al-Zawahiri has helped the Obama administration with its top domestic political priority: developing a sense of bipartisanship and national unity.
It’s one thing for Republicans to criticize, indeed cheap-shot, Obama – but that’s not the purview of outsiders. Obama is the president of all Americans – black and white, Republican, Democrat and Independent – and we tend to rally around our own when outsiders, especially jihadi mass murderers, deride or demonize one of them. Especially the one in the Oval Office.
Thanks, Ayman.