We don’t normally take the paper because neither of us are home often enough to really read it, but with the folks here we picked up a copy of the Sunday New York Times. I found this piece on the Op-Ed page and was startled by the opening paragraphs.
John McCain isn’t boasting about a new endorsement, one of the very, very few he has received from overseas. It came a few days ago:
“Al Qaeda will have to support McCain in the coming election,†read a commentary on a password-protected Islamist Web site that is closely linked to Al Qaeda and often disseminates the group’s propaganda.
So I went looking for more information and found more of the text at the Daily Telegraph. The gist — heavily paraphrased — is that a prolonged war exhausts the U.S. and provides recruitment incentives to would-be terrorists.
We all knew, going way back, that this would be their choice. A little knowledge of history shows how much the U.S. and U.S.S.R/CCCP needed each other to keep the Cold War going. If you don’t have someone who plays the game of being your dependable, knee-jerk enemy at every hour, where are you?
The sad thing is this endorsement probably is incomprehensible to the average American McCain supporter.