Maybe Osama and Zawahri sense their influence weakening in the Arab world as prosperity there grows and as Iraq etc hopefully begin to calm down and find their way and grow more comfortable with dealing with both Middle Eastern and Western countries alike.

USA is trying to talk sensibly to Iran and hopefully both sides will find mutual benefit to putting aside the belligerent talk.

Osama and Zawahri may one day find their influence shrinking to the Afghanistan and Pakistan mountain and tribal areas is my prediction. Then they will get sick and die of natural causes as all human beings must since we don’t seem to be able to catch them before their time of naturally expiring. They are both into the aging process at this time, grey beards and all and obviously looking far from young every time we see them in their video releases.

As for Obama, he is a Christian, not a Muslim, he has told us all that himself.

His first and middle names are derived directly from Arabic. But Arabs are not all Muslims, they can be Christians as well as there are Arabs from both faiths in the Middle East.

The turban on Obama’s head was I read part of the regional dress from his ancestral part of Kenya where ethnic Somalis live and apparently the turban typical of some Muslim countries was the regional dress where his father may have come from. And Somalia in East Africa is a Muslim majority country.
Now whether or not Obama’s people are of Somali origin living within Kenya’s borders or he merely put on that outfit because it could have been common to that part of Kenya, I don’t know.

I am in the wait and see mode as to what Obama winds up actually doing as President after his inauguration day is over as the realities of the world in 2009 influence what he must do over what he was hoping he could do at the time of his campaign.

On a bright note, Democrat Senatorial homophobe Robert Byrd has resigned from the Senate due to increasing age-related physical infirmaties. He gave his resignation speech and was quickly wheeled out of the Senate chamber in his wheelchair.

Ted Stevens the ancient and corrupt republican has been replaced by a middle aged Democrat who says he is an Alaska Democrat (not a New York Democrat he says)Begich is pro gun rights and pro oil drilling in the lands near the Gwich’in Indians and their carabou herds of the Alaska-Canada border areas. in ANWR also known as to Gwich’in people in their native language as the “Place Where Live Begins” referring to the birthing area of their caribou. What to know if Begich is antigay as well or not.