BRENDAN O’NEILL writes that Al Zawahiri is a rip-off artist. “He ‘s only doing what al-Qaeda bosses have consistently done since 9/11: taking the West’s own fear and loathing and throwing it back at us in a supposedly scary, finger-wagging statement to camera.”

UPDATE: Jeff Goldstein has further thoughts on Zawahiri’s rhetoric.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Similar thoughts from the wonderfully-named Drink-soaked Trotskyite Popinjays for War.