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« Iran Leaders Edge Closer to the Brink | Main | Osama Tape Mistranslated - And an Iraqi Blogger Explains Why Bush Victory is Crucial » October 31, 2004News From The FrontI'd love to give you an excerpt of the best part of Charles Krauthhammer's column, an election-eve commentary recalling the brilliance of the way President Bush conceived and conducted the Afghanistan war, but I think it's a copyright violation to copy the whole thing. So you can just read the whole thing, titled Kerry's Afghan Amnesia, here. Also in War on Terror and Campaign Season news comes this alert that the UN may try to meddle in the U.S. election Monday. I say, bring it on. The sight of the UN meddling in an American election is bound to influence some swing-state undecideds to back Bush, if only to tell the UN where to go. Winning the war on terror doesn't just mean defeating terrorists and the rogue regimes that breed, support and fund them. Increasingly, it means defeating the UN too. And, finally, the New York Post reveals that the latest Osama bin Laden video contains much more than was revealed in the six-minute excerpt broadcast by Al Jazeera and then by the major American news networks. The entire tape - 18 minutes long - includes Osama moaning about the setbacks dealt to his terrorist organization by the Bush administration. ...bin Laden bemoans the recent democratic elections in Afghanistan and the lack of violence involved with it. On the tape, bin Laden also says his terror organization has been hurt by the U.S. military's unrelenting manhunt for him and his cohorts on the Afghan-Pakistani border.It's clear why the anti-American network Al Jazeera chose not to air the tape. What is less clear is why the American networks chose not to air the portion in which bin Laden, in effect, credits the Bush administration for its success in Afghanistan and in degrading al Qaeda. And, certainly, you would have thought the American networks would have pointed out that, in claiming the war in Iraq was all about oil, bin Laden echoes both Michael Moore and much of the Democratic Party's Left. Unless of course they're trying to influence the election... Posted in War on Terror
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Earlier this year (before the heat of the campaign caused conservatives to ignore reality) arch-conservative Robert Novak had a different take on the situation in Afghanistan: http://www.townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/rn20040531.shtml Posted by: TomJ at October 31, 2004 11:40 PMI am not so sure that publishing Osama's endoresement of the President's success in Afganistan is a good idea. Posted by: wes at November 1, 2004 06:05 AMTomJ, that would be before millions of Afghanistanis lined up to vote, defying death threats from the remnants of the Taliban. Posted by: Bill at November 1, 2004 06:34 AMPost a comment
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