Nothing better represents the indignity and duplicity of U.S. policy in West Asia than this evil character who has stated on record that he was happy when New York was attacked on 9/11.
The Dancing Israelis had the decency to hide their glee. But at least he's honest. He's a terrorist at heart and he can't hide it.
Very few can. It's an art to lie to people for a living. Not everyone is a natural politician. This guy definitely isn't one. He's too stiff. No charisma.
And who is his audience in NYC? The world? Muslims? Syrians? Who exactly? He is an unelected leader so in what official capacity is he speaking in?
And now that he's being wined and dined in the U.S. much like his hero Bin Laden we're supposed to forgive and forget?
Everyone with a brain knew the War on Terror was a farce the moment it was announced by President Bush on the ashes of the Twin Towers. He famously told the world, while covered in dust and debris, "you're either with us, or you're with the terrorists."
It turned out that before, during, and after 9/11 Washington itself has always been with the terrorists.
It was with Al-Qaeda in NYC, Tripoli, Kabul, Baghdad, and Damascus. It engineered the group's creation with Pakistan's ISI, the Saudis, the MI6, and Mossad.
I have no doubts about their role in assassinating Afghan leaders, Ahmad Shah Massoud and Abdul Haq, and pinning their murders on Al-Qaeda. Both men were politically independent. Their deaths at an opportune time enabled NATO and Pakistan to have an easier time in their initial invasion of Afghanistan after 9/11.
This character, Jolani, is no doubt their creation too. He was probably groomed in Camp Bucca when he was imprisoned there to be the face of Al-Qaeda in Syria. U.S. military intelligence and the CIA treated that makeshift prison as an incubator for Islamic terrorism.
History is now coming full circle with this terrorist creature being invited to speak in New York City. But it's tall task to rehabilitate his image. Pulling the rabbit out of the hat can't be repeatedly done. The audience eventually figures it out.