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...object of Bush's U.N. speech is, presumably, to enlist active, enthusiastic support from allies whose help will be vital to destroy al Qaeda. This puts the U.S. in the unusual position of actually needing not just the passive consent, but the active assistance from Arab and Muslim countries, and the developing world in general. The Europeans, Japan, Canada and Australia may be able to help shoulder most of the military needs of a protracted campaign in Afghanistan, but combating bin Laden's own counterattacks requires the total engagement of the law enforcement and intelligence communities of the countries...
...Osama bin Laden devoted much of his own speech last weekend to denouncing international dialogue through the United Nations: "Those who claim to be Arab leaders and remain in the United Nations, they have become unbelievers of the revelation that was given to Mohammed," he said. "Those who refer matters to international legitimacy have become unbelievers in the legitimacy of the Koran...
...Ross's apid-fire real-time Arabic response - he was interviewed live within two hours of Bin Laden's broadcast - certainly gives bin Laden and the Taliban a run for their PR money. But Ross has his work cut out for him, because deep-seated anti-American feeling on the Arab streets nurtured by perceptions of U.S. culpability in the plight of the Iraqis and Palestinians has seeded the propaganda playing field in bin Laden's favor. It will take a Herculean spin effort to convince al-Jazeera viewers that Osama bin Laden is the reason for the suffering...
...Laden's war, of course, is all about propaganda - the September 11 attacks were not designed to weaken his enemy's military capacity, but to send a message to potential supporters in the Arab world that the most powerful nation on earth is vulnerable. Bin Laden has always believed that a showdown between Islam and the West is inevitable, and the strikes were also calculated to provoke a retaliation that could be painted as an attack on Islam. And despite the strenuous efforts by Bush and Blair to dispel such fears, the danger is that images of civilian suffering...
...support is anything more than lukewarm. They may be prepared to offer military bases and indispensable intelligence cooperation, but most have been ambiguous in the support of the U.S. campaign, denouncing terrorism but also expressing wariness over military action in Afghanistan. Having Christopher Ross elegantly rebut bin Laden in Arabic may be an improvement, but he needs help. And just as America is depending in large part on the Northern Alliance to fight the ground war in Afghanistan, so, too, in the propaganda war the U.S. needs indigenous allies to aggressively carry the fight to bin Laden in the court...