The Long View

In one of the more bizarre turns in an already bizarre election season, an Islamist Web site with links to Al Qaeda has endorsed John McCain:

 “Al Qaeda will have to support McCain in the coming election,” read a commentary on a password-protected Islamist Web site that is closely linked to Al Qaeda and often disseminates the group’s propaganda.

As Nicholas Kristof notes:

“An American president who keeps troops in Iraq indefinitely, fulminates about Islamic terrorism, inclines toward military solutions and antagonizes other nations is an excellent recruiting tool. In contrast, an African-American president with a Muslim grandfather and a penchant for building bridges rather than blowing them up would give Al Qaeda recruiters fits.”

It makes for an interesting terrorist connection with McCain-Pain.