Al-Dari is to Al Qaeda what Gerry Adams is to Sein Fein, the public "acceptable" face of a largely beaten and discredited movement that is capable of little more than *occasional* mild violence against soft targets.
Posted on 04/01/2005 10:41:08 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
The NYT also just reported the following: Sheik Harith al-Dari said he would continue to view the armed resistance in Iraq as legitimate until the U.S. military offered a timetable for its withdrawal. Al-Dari wants to remake Iraq into the political structure of Saudi Arabia but now finds himself as a big fish in an increasingly smaller and more discredited pond.
Al-Dari is to Al Qaeda what Gerry Adams is to Sein Fein, the public "acceptable" face of a largely beaten and discredited movement that is capable of little more than *occasional* mild violence against soft targets.
Yup, al-Dari's problem is that he resists the growing Iraqi nationalism as shown by the Shias that will soon dominate Iraqi government policy. He looks too hard headed to be effective at representing many Sunnis in the future and is becoming more marginalized. His call to boycott the elections really fouled up the Sunnis and they know it. What is interesting to me is the many Sunnis who voted anyway. Seems that al-Dari's support is paper thin among Sunnis at large and he has little rapport with Zarqawi's loony-tune Salafists.
I tend to agree. If you can't beat them, join them, and then beat them.
LOL. That's exactly what I was thinking as I read the article and it was the first comment posted. This is yet another vindication of the Bush policy of spreading democracy.
Sunni Clerics Urge Followers to Join Iraq Army and Police
the next Saddam is now a captain or major.
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