What kind of analysis is this?

"All of this amounts to an enormous strategic step forward for al-Qaeda. That these victories have come with virtually no investment of manpower or money by the terrorist network, and with self-defeating applause from the Facebook-obsessed, Twitter-addled West, only makes them all the sweeter for bin Laden."  What does he mean? There is no affinity between the protesters and kooky ideology of Al-Qa`idah.