1.20.2006 | "security and stability"

I'm sure that bin laden's latest tape will appeal to a majority of Democratic lawmakers. It will certainly have great sex appeal to the deep-blue lovers of terror and haters of George Bush in New York, Boston, Hollywood, and the various academic enclaves such as Madison, Wisconsin, and Berkeley, California.

The missive from weird beard obl tells us, trust us terrorists, would we lie to you? We promise you, if you just get out of Iraq, there'll be some sort of a "truce" under which (via the NYT)

both sides can enjoy security and stability under this truce so we can build Iraq and Afghanistan.

Of course, Iraq and al qaeda have no connection, whatsoever, right? At least according to our pro-terrorist minions in the media, politics, and Hollywood. After all, to admit such a thing would be to allow that Bush might have been telling the truth. Well, at least partly...And the reason that we were attacked by al qaeda long before we overthrew obl's new-found best bud Saddam is...what, exactly?

Getting past name-calling (Bush lied! People died! Halliburton!!!), isn't it curious that if, as bin laden said, "Our situation is getting better while yours is getting worse," that his "side" would be the one suing for a truce. Well, among other things, Islamic terrorists lie. The truth is foreign to their tongues.

The trump card in all of this is the entire notion of even dealing with this sort of evil. Even if bin laden could control the terrorists in Iraq (a doubtful enough notion), why would it ever be a good thing to allow this man to live? Dick Cheney had it exactly right:

I think you have to destroy them [terrorists]. It's the only way to deal with them.

Those who think otherwise might wish to think about the nature of good, and evil. And ask of themselves if one should ever compromise with evil, and, if one does, does that not make you, too, a partner in evil?

One makes deals with the devil at the peril of one's soul.