The Dawning of a New Age
There was a great joke that Obama was too busy finding Osama to get his paternity tests and birth certificate. It is a difficult time and people are having to take difficult decisions. Yesterday, the news was released that Al Qaeda acknowledged the killing of Osama bin Laden and then uttered some horrible words to follow it up. What I think is interesting in the difference in how the United States government decided to not publish certain images that would inflame emotions and how the BBC has published a direct quote from the leaders of Al Qaeda which will serve to utilize the BBC to spread a message of vengeance around the world. By publishing direct quotations that call for vengeance the BBC knowingly or unwittingly serves as a distribution network for the terrorist message. Obama on the other hand said that the voice of dissent for the Islamic world is now coming from Tahrir Square and not terrorists. For more than a decade there was a collusion between fundamentalist imams and repressive regimes to direct the anger of the disenfranchised towards the United States and not towards the autocratic regimes. Obviously, the west has supported these autocratic and repressive regimes to secure the supply of oil, but that phase of foreign policy came to an end with the historic speech that Obama made in Cairo towards the beginning of his presidency. The popular uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya are far from over, but hopefully they were mean a new age of democracy and freedom in the middle east.
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