Richard Clarke on Zawahri tape

[babylonsister]

http://www.democracyarsenal.org/2008/11/richard-clarke.html

Richard Clarke on Zawahri tape
Posted by Moira Whelan


We spoke to Richard Clarke today who authorized us to pass along the following statement on the tape which I think says it best:

"Obama's election has taken the wind out of al Qaeda's sails in much of the Islamic world because it demonstrates America's renewed commitment to multiculturalism, human rights, and international law. It also proves to many that democracy can work and overcome ethnic, sectarian, or racial barriers.

"Obama's commitment to withdraw from Iraq also takes away an al Qaeda propaganda tenet: that the U.S. seeks to occupy oil rich Arab lands. His commitment to defeat al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan also challenges their plans. Most of all, by returning to American values the world admires, Obama sets al Qaeda back enormously in the battle of ideas, the ideological struggle which determines whether al Qaeda will continue to have significant support in the Islamic world."

-Richard Clarke

[cali]

1. Thanks for posting this.

I think Clarke hits the nail on the head.

[bunnies]

2. But wheres the CHANGE?! wheres the CHANGE?!?!

:sarcasm:

Thanks for posting. Excellent. :)

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. Obama's election can only bolster the moderate Muslims

who are fighting not only al Qaeda but the whole fundamentalist movement, which is intent on destroying all sects of Islam save their own.

[mmonk]

4. He is a threat to them whereas bush was not.

[Lerkfish]

5. Bush was an idiot enabler to their plans.

[Alter Ego]

6. Obama's gotta approach Clarke about a position.

Seriously.

[cooolandrew]

7. Which is why I backed Barack from way back, even without a single policy he symbolizes change to >

billions. The rest falls into place after that. The day Barack was elected the way people thought about race, about war, about humanity changed. Sure there is them digging their heels but even they know that they will have to introspect everything they thought about the world.

[olegramps]

8. I would liked to see Richard Clarke brought back into government

His knowledge is invaluable and it would do much to further discredit the Bush administration.

[peace frog]

10. Second that

Clarke's input would be invaluable, and I still admire him for being the only Bush Admin official to apologize to the American people for his part in the faiure to prevent 9/11 (not that he didn't try like hell to get the Bushies' attention on the subject of al Qaeda).

[Skwmom]

9. Which is why he needs to keep Liberal-Neocons away from foreign policy.