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Robert Spencer<\/a> – October 15, 2021<\/p>\n \u201cWhen people see a strong horse and a weak horse,\u201d Osama bin Laden once famously quipped, \u201cby nature they will like the strong horse.\u201d America during the period in which Old Joe Biden continues to pretend to be president of the United States is decidedly a weak horse, and bin Laden\u2019s old outfit has noticed. Last Wednesday, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) released a video crowing over the Taliban\u2019s takeover of Afghanistan and promising to inflict damage on the scale of 9\/11 in America once again.<\/p>\n The video, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI<\/a>), featured yet another jihadi who was once held at Guantanamo, Ibrahim Al-Qousi, and was entitled \u201cA Message to the American People: You Have Yet to Understand the Lesson.\u201d Al-Qousi showed that he himself has carefully absorbed the lessons of the recent past. He said that \u201cthe greatest loss America suffered, besides its material and human losses, is its reputation and prestige as a superpower and the most powerful country in the world.\u201d Thanks, Joe!<\/p>\n The Taliban, Al-Qousi declared, had won a \u201cmagnificent\u201d victory, for they \u201chave understood the essence of this religion and the nature of the conflict \u2026 they are men whose hands \u2014 by the grace of Allah alone \u2014 buried a third empire in the soil of Afghanistan and restored the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan to rule by the shari\u2019a of Allah, even if America and its allies hate it.\u201d<\/p>\n If there is anything that the State and Defense Departments did not or would not understand, it was the role that religion played in the conflict. Foreign policy experts for years dismissed statements akin to Al-Qousi\u2019s declaration that victory was won in Afghanistan \u201cby the grace of Allah alone\u201d as mere boilerplate, not realizing that for the Taliban, it was the essence of the entire war. That\u2019s why they\u2019re in power today in Kabul, thumping their chests over having defeated the United States.<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Robert Spencer – October 15, 2021 \u201cWhen people see a strong horse and a weak horse,\u201d Osama bin Laden once famously quipped, \u201cby nature they will like the strong horse.\u201d America during the period in which Old Joe Biden continues to pretend to be president of the United States is decidedly a weak horse, and … Continue reading Al-Qaeda Threatens U.S. With Attacks ‘More Painful Than 9\/11’<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[86,748,16195,16196,5065,5184,329,360,821],"class_list":["post-20268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-warning","tag-afghanistan","tag-al-qaeda","tag-aqap","tag-ibrahim-al-qousi","tag-jihadi","tag-sharia","tag-taliban","tag-terrorism","tag-united-states"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-5gU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20270,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20268\/revisions\/20270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}