Biff, Bam, Boom…Take That!

Victor Davis Hanson is at his finest in this skewering of those that oppose our war on terrorism.

But examine al Qaeda’s plight. Bin Laden’s home base in Afghanistan is lost for good. Elites of his terrorist organization are targeted from the air even in the supposedly safe Pakistani borderlands. Plenty of al Qaeda terrorists have been killed in Iraq. Europe is suddenly galvanizing against Islamic fascism. (France even mentions the unmentionable of targeting terrorist patrons with nuclear weapons.) India has no tolerance for Islamic extremism. The terrorist sponsors of Iran and Syria are finally becoming international pariahs. And thousands of Muslims have demonstrated in Lebanon and Jordan against terrorist bombers.

Beginning with this offering, Hanson takes off the gloves:

…….. al Qaeda’s talking points seem to derive from American anti-war rhetoric, as bin Laden and Co. desperately cling to the notion that our resolve may yet crumble. Whether domestic critiques of the Bush administration’s anti-terror policies are heartfelt or gratuitous, accurate or fabricated, an encouraged bin Laden doesn’t care: He simply regurgitates these arguments as his own to throw back against us. Either bin Laden can’t come up with any more grievances himself, or he figures that Americans are better at making his case for him.

So if American opponents of the present effort (whom bin Laden calls “the sensible people”) adduce polls showing increasing anti-war sentiment, then bin Laden is likewise encouraged by “polls calling for withdrawing the troops.” Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., alleges that “Saddam’s torture chambers reopened under new management: U.S. management.” To bin Laden, there similarly “is no difference” between Saddam’s jail and ours. Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., derides Guantanamo as an American Stalinist or Hitlerian scandal. So bin Laden rages about Guantanamo.

Read the entire piece. You won’t be dissapointed.