Usama bin Laden's video-tape offering "peace" to European countries abstaining from war on terror implies expected European obliviousness to fact that 9-11 was retaliation for America's European-approved use of Arabian land for war to free Kuwait and thereafter maintain token forces to deter aggression; Osama bin Laden's blackmail.

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Usama bin Laden's video-tape offering "peace" to European countries abstaining from war on terror implies expected European obliviousness to fact that 9-11 was retaliation for America's European-approved use of Arabian land for war to free Kuwait and thereafter maintain token forces to deter aggression; Osama bin Laden's blackmail.·

Why did Usama bin Laden, a.k.a. Osama bin Laden, declare war on the United States and launch the 9-11 attack preceded by a series terrorist attacks on the U.S. interests? According to bin Laden's post-9-11 video tape and subsequent propaganda, he did it as retaliation for what was America's then-token military presence in Saudi Arabia in the years after America provided an overwhelming proportion of the military force (and sacrifices) to drive Saddam Hussein's troops from Kuwait in accordance with United Nations resolutions supported by virtually every country in Europe.

Does any Western European country that condemned rather than supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom exhibit any meaningful understanding that the thousands of Americans who died in the 9-11 attack suffered such fate as a direct result of America having played the dominant military role in enforcing U.N. resolutions those countries supported for removing Hussein from Kuwait by military force and for America maintaining token forces in Saudi Arabia to enforce the cease-fire in Persian Gulf War and to serve as a deterrent against future aggression by Hussein? No, of course not.

Do not those same countries now speciously imply that if only the United States were to have merely maintained its massive military buildup in the Persian Gulf in 2002 as the means for "containing" Hussein and attempting to coerce him into complying with twelve-years of United Nations resolutions supported by them but defied by him, al Qaeda's motivation (and recruitment) for attacks against American even more devastating than 9-11 would have somehow diminished rather than intensifying? Should it not be obvious to anyone using common sense that our having merely maintained such massively larger force in the Persian Gulf (rather than launching Operation Iraqi Freedom) would have intensified al Qaeda's motivation (and recruitment) for attacks against America more devastating than 9-11?

Given America's use of military power to topple the Taliban and spend years trying to eradicate al Qaeda members and sympathizers from Afghanistan, would it not have been foolhardy for America to have failed to massively increase its military presence in the Persian Gulf as a deterrent against Hussein perceiving our occupation with Afghanistan as an opportunity for him to resume aggressive action and/or enhance or restore his ability to use, or credibly threaten to use, chemical, biological or nuclear weapons? If we were to have followed such strategy, would we not now be worrying about our military forces in the Persian Gulf becoming victims of surprise uses of weapons of mass destruction? Would not those forces now be experiencing terrorist attacks? Would our military not now already be "stretched" too thin with such large numbers needed to guard our flank while waging war in Afghanistan?

Given the fact that our success in Iraq (despite current setbacks) has forced al Qaeda and other terrorists forces to concentrate their efforts against us in Iraq, could one seriously argue that the Operation Iraqi Freedom has redounded to their benefit rather than ours? Is not chess a more suitable strategy against terror than tic tac toe? Does not a strategy seeking long-term success rather than tic-tac-toe defense make it more, rather than less, likely that lives lost in such effort will not be lost "in vain."

Bin Laden's Offensive Peace Offensive.

My name is Usama bin Laden
announcing my tactic for proddin'
America's friends
to totally end
support for the war on bin Laden.

To Europe, al Qaeda proposes
to offer a bed full of roses
to countries digressing
from warfare suppressing
the threats our barbarity poses.

Forget that we launched 9-11
to punish the country that leavened
Arabian lands
with soldierly bands
to save them from Saddam's aggression.

Forget that such warfare deployment
they shrunk to a token deployment
on freeing Kuwait
per votes that you gave
to chasten Saddam's bad deportment.

Pretend if America fails
its mission that freedom prevail,
our brethren in bands
concealed in your lands
would not inflict terror travails.

When hope that your goose we're not cookin'
persuades you away to keep lookin'
until the next phase,
to borrow a phrase,
I'll sell you the bridge they call "Brooklyn."

Will these facts ever dawn on our European critics? Even though we have thus far been able to convince them that Iraq is, and was, an essential theatre in the global war against terrorism, perhaps Usama bin Laden's latest video tape proposing a "truce" with countries ceasing cooperation with America in Iraq or Afghanistan may trigger the beginning of their enlightenment.

--Jim Wrenn, Editor at PoliSat.Com.

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