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Interesting, that makes their altruistic (CDN) hosting seem slightly more strategic.

Everything Google do is strategic and usually has little if anything to do with their publicly stated aims. For example, Android, recaptcha, OpenID...

I wish people would explain their downvotes more (I just bumped you from 0).

Is it too short? Or not insightful enough? Or.. do you disagree with his opinion?

My guess would be it's because the comment was factually incorrect.

From an ad-blocking perspective, the Google AJAX Libraries CDN and the rest of Google's properties are in no way related. The Google API, Libraries CDN, and supporting documentation is the only thing on the googleapis.com domain.

The CDN is a different subdomain; can Adblock not handle this?

Google's jQuery CDN is hosted on a separate domain (that doesn't share cookies with Google services like AdWords, AdSense, and Analytics). Blocking Google.com doesn't block their jQuery CDN, nor is there a good reason to block their cookie-less CDN domain.