Roosevelt's jihad

Comrade Lenin links to Roosevelt’s message to the people of the Mahgreb on the occasion of Operation Torch:

Behold. We the American Holy Warriors have arrived. We have come here to fight the great Jihad of Freedom.

We have come to set you free. We have sailed across the great sea in many ships, on many beaches we are landing, and our fighters swarm across the sands and into the city streets, and into the wide country sides, and along the highways.

Light fires on the hilltops; shout from your housetops, and from the high places, and say the sound of the
drum be heard in the land, and the ululation of the women, and the voices even of small children.

Assemble along the highways to welcome your brothers.

Plenty more where that came from. As Len says, enough to get a wistful sigh from the White House’s current inhabitants. I thought this was a bit off though:

If we are thirsty, show us the way to water. If we lose our way, lead us back to our camping places. Show us the paths over the mountains if need be, and if you see our enemies, the Germans or Italians, making trouble for us, kill them with knives or with stones or with any other weapon that you may have set your hands upon.

Now, now. Friends don’t ask friends to attack the Afrika Korps with rocks.