RTFA: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/opinion/26kristo…

John McCain isn’t boasting about a new endorsement, one of the very, very few he has received from overseas. It came a few days ago:

“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.

The endorsement left the McCain campaign sputtering, and noting helplessly that Hamas appears to prefer Barack Obama. Al Qaeda’s apparent enthusiasm for Mr. McCain is manifestly not reciprocated.

“The transcendent challenge of our time [is] the threat of radical Islamic terrorism,” Senator McCain said in a major foreign policy speech this year, adding, “Any president who does not regard this threat as transcending all others does not deserve to sit in the White House.”

Talk about palling around with terrorists! I think this is a fascinating intersection of interests: the desire to engulf the Middle-East region in racial and religious hatred is mirrored on both sides of the Atlantic, and it appears that both sides mutually depend on a reliable enemy in order to sustain this furor.

I don’t like this one bit. Wasn’t there a time when the rhetoric was that, “the US wouldn’t cave to the demands of terrorists?” …well what now, if the terrorists have articulated the manner in which one presidential candidate fits into their recruiting strategy?

This poses a fascinating dilemma for the people of the United States.