22nd October 2008, 8:54 PM
Great Rumbler Wrote:And some white supremacist groups have put their support behind Obama.
Yeah, that's pretty strange too...
But their logic here (the Al Quaida supporters) makes a bit of sense -- McCain is rasher and more likely to get us into more violent foreign entanglements. They think that too much of that will help America collapse faster, which ... well, look at Iraq... it's at least partially true.
It's somewhat self-punishing perhaps because more wars would mean more would-be terrorists dying too, but as long as there are more people to replace them, they don't seem to care about that, and as Iraq again shows, US Middle Eastern wars also do a lot for their recruitment efforts... there was no Al-Quaida in Iraq until after we invaded, after all, and then it became a powerful force.
I wasn't trying to say "don't vote for McCain because of this"; it just seemed to be an interesting article... though I definitely strongly disagree with the Bush/Cheney style of rash, invasion-happy Middle East policy. Building democracy is good... peace-keeping in parts of the world that need the help is good... but invading countries without good reason is not.
Oh yeah, and this isn't the voice of Al Quaida speaking or anything, just people on a forum who support them (intellectually at least). Though it is telling that back in '04 Bin Laden released that video, which some people say helped swing some people to Bush... Al Quaida does benefit overall from Bush-style foreign policy. They flourish on war... we've managed to partially suppress Al Quaida in Iraq, but they and their supporters still a problem there and in many other countries from Afghanistan to Algeria.
In some regards, like Israel policy, our Middle East policy is the same no matter which party is in power, but Al Gore or John Kerry would never have started the Iraq War...
alien space marine Wrote:Mr Bin laden is trying reverse psychology,The main motives for Al'qeadas violent jihad is the U.S support for Israel and Arab dictators .
There's a lot of truth to this. US support for the Saudi, Egyptian, and Israeli governments were core reasons behind the founding of Al Quaida. But as a militant group, they do benefit from war... as long as they don't get completely destroyed of course, but that doesn't seem to be happening.