What is the difference between a bunch of would-be world conquerors who can talk
a good line and the ones who can deliver world domination?
It is hard to tell because anyone that can do a stand-up in front of a video camera. And it
is not too hard to stage a terrorist bombing and
fill a camera frame with mayhem and destruction.
Our friends in the international MSM can make these chaps look pretty imposing. But to Amir Taheri they
don’t look to great. His analysis of the video statement of mullah al-Zawahiri indicates that things
are not going too well.
For the past three years, al-Zawahiri had advocated a policy of focusing
the terrorists’ efforts on winning power in "vulnerable" Muslim countries — Afghanistan,
Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Egypt. Yet his latest message shows that he is now persuaded
that such a strategy has little chance of success. All the countries targeted are doing well
in their war on terror;
Afghanistan and Pakistan may have already turned the tide.
The world is full of would-be world conquering world movements and voluble
spokesmen with their demands and their threats. The question is not whether you can summon
spirits from the vasty deep, as Harry Hotspur noted four hundred years ago.
The question is: Will they come?
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