California Conservative

The AP is reporting that al-Qaida is threatening more attacks on Saudi soil. If their attacks are as well-planned and executed as their attack on the Abqaiq oil processing facility, let’s hope that al Qaida is planning alot more of those types of raids.

A statement appeared on a militant Web site saying that Friday’s attack was “part of a series of operations that al-Qaida is carrying out against the crusaders and the Jews to stop their plundering of Muslim wealth.” It was signed “al-Qaida in the Arab Peninsula”, the name of the Saudi branch of the terror network. The statement did not acknowledge that the attack was foiled. In fact, it claimed that the two “heroic holy warriors” managed to enter Abqaiq.

Forgive me for saying this but al Qaida sounds like they’re settling for moral victories like Democrats do these days. When al Qaida terrorists get blown to smithereens without even entering the gates of their target, their website praises two “heroic holy warriors”. When Paul Hackett came close and lost in the special election in Ohio, Democrats talk about getting on a roll and that the Republicans are headed for defeat in 06.

I hate breaking this to them but failing can’t be categorized as winning. It’s still a defeat. It’s still nothing to get excited about. In fact, it means that you’ve got to do better, if you can. And the “if you can” part is still much in doubt.

(It isn’t my intention to sound flippant about al Qaida’s attack on Abqaiq. Instead, it’s my intention to ridicule the futile nature of the attack.)

Remember to put this in context, too. At the start of this GWOT, we were told that Arabs respected strength. If that’s true, which I believe it is, then Arabs ridicule weakness and ineptitude. In light of that context, shouldn’t we be mocking AQ’s diminishing capabilities?

Cross-post at LetFreedomRing

This entry was posted on Saturday, February 25th, 2006 at 12:25 pm and is filed under Author: Gary Gross, Middle East, Terrorism. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.