Blogs of War has a post that does a pretty good job of rounding up some of the more digestible commentary relating to the “revelations” of an al-Qaeda plot to use cyanide as a birth control method in New York City.
Al-Qaeda terrorists came within 45 days of attacking the New York subway system with a lethal gas similar to that used in Nazi death camps. They were stopped not by any intelligence breakthrough, but by an order from Osama bin Laden’s deputy, Ayman Zawahiri. And the U.S. learned of the plot from a CIA mole inside al-Qaeda. These are some of the more startling revelations by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Suskind, whose new book The One Percent Doctrine is excerpted in the forthcoming issue of TIME. It will appear on Time.com early Sunday morning.
Planned Parenthood is a strong supporter of abortion rights, and so is al-Qaeda, although they approach the issue of abortion differently. The difference in the two organizations is that al-Qaeda likes to work with fully formed adult humans when they provide abortion services. Oh yeah, there is one other difference. Al-Qaeda skips the counseling sessions and other formalities before they induce the abortions. No forms to sign. Al-Qaeda will come to your neighborhood to provide services, and you don’t even have to call them. They make all the hard decisions for you.
In August 2005, amidst some controversy, Planned Parenthood Golden Gate (the San Francisco section of the organization) released an animated video depicting violence against those critical of Planned Parenthood, including the drowning of an abstinence proponent in lubricant, blowing up zombie-like demonstrators at their clinic, and decapitating one of them with a giant condom. The link from its main page was quickly removed after some criticism began. Al-Qaeda, on the other hand, still circulates beheading videos on a regular basis. Their marketing people have bigger cajones and are less likely to back down in the face of harsh criticism. Also, al-Qaeda thinks cyanide is an appropriate form of birth control.
The hot new marketing buzzword for al-Qaeda this month is mubtakkar. While Western scientists are engaged in using the human genome and stem cells to find ways to extend and enhance the value of our lives, al-Qaeda is busy inventing cyanide spritzer machines. How pleasant.
And that’s why we’re at war people.