Richard Clarke: Obama victory is a blow to al Qaeda's standing in the world

[BurtWorm]

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

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

[bdamomma]

1. thank you Richard Clarke.

[EFerrari]

2. Clarke is such a smart, expressive man. Too bad we can't have him back.

He really gets it.

[bdamomma]

5. Richard Clarke, Joe Wilson, and John Dean

I wish they were appointed in the new administration.

[EFerrari]

6. I like Joe Wilson but he seems to have a temper. Although, he's also had

a LOT of provocation, so maybe that isn't a fair assessment.

[bdamomma]

8. I also admire Bruce Fein and Jonathan Turley

[EFerrari]

14. Both brilliant men. I enjoyed their joint appearance on Moyers

when they rolled out the case for impeachment.

[OneGrassRoot]

18. Me, too. n/t

[tblue]

11. Why can't we have him back?

And I agree. He is so smart and he is a true patriot who gets it.

[EFerrari]

15. I wonder if he'd want to go back into the pressure cooker?

:)

[rvablue]

20. Why couldn't we have Clarke back....Obama did say there would be a Repubican

appointed to his staff/Cabinet.

I think Clarke would be the most desired and appreciated among them.

[Deep13]

3. But, but, but, but terrism and stuff! nt

[Kolesar]

4. Great stuff

whose web site is this? Yours??

[ben_meyers]

7. So Clarke has fallen for it too?

We all know that al Qaeda is a figment of the CIA's imagination made up by the CIA and Bushco to justify the grabbing of a sovereign nations oil. And now Clark lends credibility to the myth. There is no world wide threat, just power hungry neo-cons.

[BurtWorm]

9. I think that's a vast oversimplification of what al Qaeda is

and what role the CIA and neo-conservative American "intellectuals" had to play in its creation. It's not just a figment of imagination. It's a Frankenstein monster that got out of the CIA's anti-Soviet lab and developed a "mind" of its own.

[DS1]

10. Sometimes there are arguments so inherently stupid it's best to not make them

Al Qaeda is not a figment of the CIA's imagination.

[tblue]

12. We would have rolled up whatever 'al Qaeda' is if it had been up to Richard Clarke

and if we'd had a president with a brain in his head.

[pampango]

13. Apparently he is not as smart as some of us are. n/t

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

16. One of the biggest injustices of the Bush criminal enterprise.

Richard Clarke took the fall for this shameful administration. I hope Obama rights the wrong and gives this man his just due.

[mzmolly]

17. I hope Clarke is part of the new administration.

He's spot on.

:hi:

[OneGrassRoot]

19. Interesting analysis. I've always valued Richard Clarke's opinions. n/t