The text of Osama Bin Laden's latest video is available online. I found it at ABC. If you think this man doesn't hate us, you must read his words. While Ron Paul thinks they were just mad at us for having troops in Saudi Arabia, Bin Laden decries our capitalism and democracy as the plagues of our society. Bin Laden then proceeds to try and convince us how peaceful he and Islam are as he pleas for us to denounce the West, our government and democracy and he tries to convince us to join in his cause.
Bin Laden is smart and manipulative. He is playing on current economic problems, taxes, the mortgage crisis and other societal ills to try and attempt to win our people over. He mentions time and time again big corporations and conjures up the industrial-military complex trying to take advantage of the fears and conspiracy theories of many on the far left. It might actually work. Just as Ron Paul thinks they had no qualms with us before our liberation of Kuwait, and many liberals questioned why they hated us on September 11th... some in our country will believe everything Bin Laden says and renew their calls for our return to isolationism and withdrawal.
For those people I fear there is no hope. If you don't recognize pure evil as it threatens your very way of life, then I don't know how to convince you otherwise. But remember, Hitler only wanted Poland. Once you begin believing maniacal terrorists and appease their evil schemes, they will only want to take more. Just as Hitler didn't stop at the Polish Corridor, Bin Laden would not stop at the Twin Towers.
The only way to stop him is to keep up the fight. The only way to win is to remain firm in our resolve. Have we learned anything from history, or are we doomed to repeat the same mistakes?
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