Osama’s audio is not simply a jihadist call-to-arms. Bin Laden, a public relations mastermind, wisely frames the issue to elicit empathy for Muslims who suffer through misery, violence and death on a daily basis. Osama contrasts this mental construct with verbal imagery of exuberant Americans, snug and safe in their homeland. His modus ponens is strung together by a given premise: Palestine’s suffering is directly correlated to U.S. policy. This notion Bin Laden has deftly reinforced time and again, and to such an extent that it’s now embedded in the collective subconscious of Muslims and solacers around the globe.

Bin Laden's message is aimed more at motivating Americans to question their government than for motivating militant groups like the Taliban, because, according to recent polls, Bin Laden and al-Qaeda are falling out of favor with the Taliban themselves who are being led by a younger generation of jihadists, who are purer in heart and less politically adept than their predecessors. Besides, everyone forgets that Osama used to love America when the U.S funded the Afghan mujaheddin in their war with the Soviets. To them, Bin Laden is the Joe Liebermann of jihadists.

Bin Laden's specific objective is centered on Gaza because he wants to raise suspicions over the Israel lobby's influence on American foreign policy. However, Americans should also consider questioning the impact that the "war lobby" has had on U.S. politicians who believe it's a grand idea to spread our military across the globe to intervene in the internal affairs of other nations. Yemen is currently the only place that has a somewhat just rationale for U.S. intervention, considering we have evidence that clearly links AQAP to the terrorist who tried to blow up a U.S. flight on Christmas. (evidence - that luxury that could not be afforded by the previous administration prior to launching its ventures abroad).

Yet, if we follow the Yemen logic, then why aren't we launching air strikes in Saudi Arabia - the home of the hijackers that attacked us on 9/11? Finally, if we applied the Yemen logic, we should launch a full-blown attack against the Quetta Shura in Pakistan, which would cut off the head of the beast that actually did strike us on 9/11. Instead, we have occupied the country next door.