Yesterday, I wrote a post in which I expressed my disappointment with the outcome of the election.  My chief concern was that people voted based on emotions and not based on issues.  Although I didn't mention it in my posts, one of the main concerns for me was the issue of National Security, and I thought that John McCain was better qualified infinitely more qualified to keep our country safe.

Someone left an interesting comment, and while my intention is not to single someone out, I think this person echoes the sentiments of many others who voted for Barack Obama and perhaps this thinking swayed their vote to his side.

"Al Qaeda would have loved to have McCain get in.  With Obama being elected... all the terrorist's recruiting programs are now "out the window."  If you wanted the end times to come... then McCain would make sense.  With Obama in... we have taken away their target... meaning their excuse to label the US as a threat.  Now with Obama not pursuing the policy of taking a pre-emptive strike... Now they have nothing to use as an excuse for recruiting new members."

The comment above represents exactly what our enemies wanted us to believe before the election, that radical terrorists viewed the US under an Obama administration as somehow less of a threat than under McCain, and that they would abandon their pursuits against US interests, were Obama to be elected.  What are they saying today?

In an editorial, the Iranian daily Jomhouri-ye Eslami stated: "The most that that black man can do in the White House is to replace some of the staff and change some ceremonial procedures. He will never manage to change the structure of the American regime, which was established by capitalists, Zionists, and racists."

The paper added that President Obama would not bring change to the world, because both the Democrats and Republicans were party to the U.S.'s oppressive and interest-driven foreign policy. Therefore, it said, any changes that do occur would be tactical rather than strategic."

From The Saudi daily Al-Watan stated in an editorial: "There is no significant difference between Obama and McCain. They disagree only on the means to achieve America's chief goal, which is to rule for another hundred years."

From Sheikh Yousef Al-Qaradhawi : "Whoever thinks that the Democrats are less hostile to [the Arabs] than the Republicans should know that the number of Iraqis killed during the siege [of Iraq] by the Democrat Bill Clinton is twice as high as the number of [Iraqis] killed by the Republican [George] Bush."

Clearly some of us have been duped into voting for a candidate with no military or foreign relations experience, someone who was not the candidate of choice for somewhere around 75% of people in the military, under the pretense that our enemies would just leave us alone and we'd all be friends. Tsk, tsk. Didn't your mother teach you never to trust a terrorist?  If the Arab world doesn't believe that "Change Is Coming", then why in the world should we???