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Thanks to Republican Bush, Bin Laden won. |
From The New York Daily News, 9/12/06:
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/451750p-380139c.html
Thanks to Bush, Bin Laden won
By Richard Cohen
I hear Osama Bin Laden laughing.
I heard him all day on Sunday and yesterday as the mass murder of
Sept. 11, 2001, was memorialized at the Pentagon and in that field in
Pennsylvania and, especially, here where the most people died and
where countless cameras recorded it all for posterity and an abiding,
everlasting, anger.
He laughs, the madman does, whenever George Bush says, as he has over
and over, that America is "winning this war on terror."
Osama Bin Laden knows better.
He has already won.
It is not merely that Bin Laden has not been captured or killed and
that videotapes keep coming out of his hideout like taunts;
it is rather that his initial strategy has borne fruit.
He succeeded beyond his wildest expectations when the U.S. responded
to the Sept. 11 attacks by invading Afghanistan and, in a beat, then
going to war in Iraq.
It remains mired in both countries to this day.
From Bin Laden's standpoint, this has been a glorious victory, made
possible, it has to be said, by the totally unforeseen incompetence of
the Bush administration.
It was so intent on going to war in Iraq that it would not finish the
job in Afghanistan.
So the U.S. took on the secular Saddam Hussein, whom Bin Laden himself
would gladly have murdered.
It has to be a wonderful thing when your enemy vanquishes your enemy.
On "Meet the Press" Sunday, Vice President Cheney said if he had to do
it all over again, he would still go to war in Iraq - "we'd do exactly
the same thing," he said.
Why?
Is the man incapable of learning from experience?
We now know from umpteen reports that there was no link between Bin
Laden and Saddam.
We now know that Mohamed Atta did not meet in Prague with Iraqi
intelligence.
We now know that Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction and that
the Iraq war - which has cost America more than 2,500 lives, the
respect of the world and billions of dollars - is for naught.
How did Bin Laden get so lucky?
How did he get so fortunate in his choice of enemies?
The Bush administration not only validated his wildest dreams but went
even further.
By using torture, by the abuses of Abu Ghraib, by employing
"extraordinary renditions" of suspects to countries where they could
be tortured, by telling the international community to shove it, the
U.S. is now reviled in much of the world.
I was here on Sept. 11, 2001 - downtown when the twin towers
collapsed. I would, to this day, kill Osama Bin Laden with my own
hands.
But I have to recognize that from his vantage point, somewhere on the
Pakistan-Afghanistan frontier, he has won.
What he had set out to do, he has done.
That is more than we can say.
_____________________________________________
Harry
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Harry Hope wrote:
From The New York Daily News, 9/12/06:
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/451750p-380139c.html
Thanks to Bush, Bin Laden won
By Richard Cohen
I hear Osama Bin Laden laughing.
I heard him all day on Sunday and yesterday as the mass murder of
Sept. 11, 2001, was memorialized at the Pentagon and in that field in
Pennsylvania and, especially, here where the most people died and
where countless cameras recorded it all for posterity and an abiding,
everlasting, anger.
He laughs, the madman does, whenever George Bush says, as he has over
and over, that America is "winning this war on terror."
Osama Bin Laden knows better.
He has already won.
It is not merely that Bin Laden has not been captured or killed and
that videotapes keep coming out of his hideout like taunts;
it is rather that his initial strategy has borne fruit.
He succeeded beyond his wildest expectations when the U.S. responded
to the Sept. 11 attacks by invading Afghanistan and, in a beat, then
going to war in Iraq.
It remains mired in both countries to this day.
From Bin Laden's standpoint, this has been a glorious victory, made
possible, it has to be said, by the totally unforeseen incompetence of
the Bush administration.
It was so intent on going to war in Iraq that it would not finish the
job in Afghanistan.
So the U.S. took on the secular Saddam Hussein, whom Bin Laden himself
would gladly have murdered.
It has to be a wonderful thing when your enemy vanquishes your enemy.
On "Meet the Press" Sunday, Vice President Cheney said if he had to do
it all over again, he would still go to war in Iraq - "we'd do exactly
the same thing," he said.
Why?
Is the man incapable of learning from experience?
We now know from umpteen reports that there was no link between Bin
Laden and Saddam.
We now know that Mohamed Atta did not meet in Prague with Iraqi
intelligence.
We now know that Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction and that
the Iraq war - which has cost America more than 2,500 lives, the
respect of the world and billions of dollars - is for naught.
How did Bin Laden get so lucky?
How did he get so fortunate in his choice of enemies?
The Bush administration not only validated his wildest dreams but went
even further.
By using torture, by the abuses of Abu Ghraib, by employing
"extraordinary renditions" of suspects to countries where they could
be tortured, by telling the international community to shove it, the
U.S. is now reviled in much of the world.
I was here on Sept. 11, 2001 - downtown when the twin towers
collapsed. I would, to this day, kill Osama Bin Laden with my own
hands.
But I have to recognize that from his vantage point, somewhere on the
Pakistan-Afghanistan frontier, he has won.
What he had set out to do, he has done.
That is more than we can say.
_____________________________________________
Harry
Drat you, Harry Hope! I was keen to post this!
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12 Sep 2006 10:02:22 AM |
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In article <5tedg2tluh2grn3ca5tutup2o03rh10pvi@4ax.com>,
Harry Hope <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
From The New York Daily News, 9/12/06:
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/451750p-380139c.html
Thanks to Bush, Bin Laden won
By Richard Cohen
I hear Osama Bin Laden laughing.
I heard him all day on Sunday and yesterday as the mass murder of
Sept. 11, 2001, was memorialized at the Pentagon and in that field in
Pennsylvania and, especially, here where the most people died and
where countless cameras recorded it all for posterity and an abiding,
everlasting, anger.
He laughs, the madman does, whenever George Bush says, as he has over
and over, that America is "winning this war on terror."
Osama Bin Laden knows better.
He has already won.
It is not merely that Bin Laden has not been captured or killed and
that videotapes keep coming out of his hideout like taunts;
it is rather that his initial strategy has borne fruit.
He succeeded beyond his wildest expectations when the U.S. responded
to the Sept. 11 attacks by invading Afghanistan and, in a beat, then
going to war in Iraq.
It remains mired in both countries to this day.
From Bin Laden's standpoint, this has been a glorious victory, made
possible, it has to be said, by the totally unforeseen incompetence of
the Bush administration.
It was so intent on going to war in Iraq that it would not finish the
job in Afghanistan.
So the U.S. took on the secular Saddam Hussein, whom Bin Laden himself
would gladly have murdered.
It has to be a wonderful thing when your enemy vanquishes your enemy.
On "Meet the Press" Sunday, Vice President Cheney said if he had to do
it all over again, he would still go to war in Iraq - "we'd do exactly
the same thing," he said.
Why?
Is the man incapable of learning from experience?
We now know from umpteen reports that there was no link between Bin
Laden and Saddam.
We now know that Mohamed Atta did not meet in Prague with Iraqi
intelligence.
We now know that Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction and that
the Iraq war - which has cost America more than 2,500 lives, the
respect of the world and billions of dollars - is for naught.
How did Bin Laden get so lucky?
How did he get so fortunate in his choice of enemies?
The Bush administration not only validated his wildest dreams but went
even further.
By using torture, by the abuses of Abu Ghraib, by employing
"extraordinary renditions" of suspects to countries where they could
be tortured, by telling the international community to shove it, the
U.S. is now reviled in much of the world.
I was here on Sept. 11, 2001 - downtown when the twin towers
collapsed. I would, to this day, kill Osama Bin Laden with my own
hands.
But I have to recognize that from his vantage point, somewhere on the
Pakistan-Afghanistan frontier, he has won.
What he had set out to do, he has done.
That is more than we can say.
_____________________________________________
Harry
and; look what I found;
President Bush admits the existence of secret CIA jails
http://www.cursor.org/stories/civilian_deaths.htm
and
http://www.cursor.org/
The Bush administration claims that detainees of the U.S. military will
now be "ensured humane treatment" and acknowledges the existence of
secret CIA prisons in announcing the transfer of "14 high-value
terrorism suspects" to Guantanamo.
A report that 'GOP Senators Differ With President on Military Trials'
prompts Josh Marshall to ask, "Is the jig up?"
By Maureen Dowd's count, President Bush invoked Osama bin Laden by name
"18 times in a 40-minute speech," quoting him repeatedly, albeit
selectively, while a U.S. ally extended a hearty, 'Welcome, Citizen
Osama!'
The newly updated "National Strategy For Combatting Terrorism" makes no
mention of bin Laden by name, saying instead that "the enemy we face
today in the war on terror is not the same enemy we faced on Sept. 11."
NBC's David Gregory reportedly mixed it up with White House press
secretary Tony Snow, who "denied that the president's statement and
report today on the war on terrorism were political in any way."
In an interview with NPR, the New Yorker's Lawrence Wright, author of
"The Looming Tower," discusses the importance of a U.S. attack on Iran
to al Qaeda's "20 year master plan" leading to "total apocalyptic war
on unbelievers."
Reviewing Wright's book, Mark Follman maps 'The road to 9/11 and
beyond,' and Martin Amis describes 'The real conspiracy' and "a
festival of gullibility" as September 11 approaches again.
Before examining 'Osama's Bank Account,' "Ghost Wars" author Steve Coll
participated in an e-mail correspondence with Wright on the
relationship between Bin Laden and Ayman Al-Zawahiri.
A New Yorker panel surveys 'The World After 9/11,' in which a new Zogby
poll finds that almost a third of all Democrats believe there was a
link between Saddam Hussein and the attacks on New York and Washington.
As a New York Times analysis ponders 'Nuclear Deja Vu,' Iran's hardline
president finds common ground with a U.S. campus crusader.
'The knife at Pakistan's throat' The Taliban are reportedly "in
complete control" along the border with Afghanistan, while Balochistan
protests the killing of a 'man in the mountains,' who figured
prominently in 'India's Baloch Dream.'
A Canadian air show has dropped plans to feature a U.S. Air Force A-10
Thunderbolt, "identical to planes that killed a Canadian soldier and
wounded dozens of others in Afghanistan," as Canadian newspapers report
that Bush proclaims, 'Canada is terror threat.'
Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani reportedly decides to "cease all
political activity," but not before demanding a timetable for U.S.
withdrawal and denouncing the "failure of the government" to protect
the lives of citizens.
As the 'Army Tries Private Pitch For Recruits,' a want ad for one of
the companies doing the pitching 'Says It All.'
Firedoglake rounds up reaction to David Corn's revelation that former
CIA agent Valery Plame Wilson was "operations chief of the Joint Task
Force on Iraq" -- which was "ramped up several months before 9/11 even
occurred."
Revisiting the subject of "Peak Fascism," Rigorous Intuition's Jeff
Wells wonders "what should we expect a minute past" the appearance of
'The Clown At Midnight.'
"Seriously bad news" A New York Times editorial goes 'In Search of
Accurate Vote Totals,' and a Mother Jones report challenges citizens in
'11 of America's worst places to cast a ballot' to 'Just Try Voting
Here.'
A McClatchy report includes an mp3 sample of "Greetings, Hope of
Lebanon," a song praising Hezbollah, which has brought "rock-star
status" to a Palestinian band.
September 5
As U.S. military deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan surpass the number
killed on 9/11, and Howard Zinn argues that "war is terrorism," Bush's
"revival meeting" narrative is seen as offering "uncomplicated
seduction."
A "major rhetorical reversal" on Iraq by Vice President Cheney, "if you
will," is seen as comparable to the use of the domino theory to "sell"
Vietnam.
Following a conversation with Sen. John Warner, a column by George Will
"suggests that, if it wasn't at the beginning, the Iraq war is now all
about oil."
"One more drop in the polls," writes Frank Rich, and the Bush
administration "may yet rebrand this mess War of the Worlds."
An Army investigor has recommended the death penalty for four U.S.
soldiers charged with committing murder during a raid in Iraq, with the
AP noting that the U.S. military has not executed a service member
since the early 1960s.
Afghanistan's opium production is reported to have reached the "highest
levels ever recorded," as a 'Symbol for Change Becomes a Symbol of
Failure.'
McClatchy's Jonathan Landay cites diplomatic sources as saying that
Pakistan has "bought peace" with Islamic separatists by "exporting the
problem" to Afghanistan, where an Operation Medusa strafing by U.S.
warplanes "isn't the first time that Canadian troops have died in
so-called friendly-fire incidents."
Republicans have reportedly "all but abandoned" work on immigration,
choosing instead to "play to their political strength" during "Security
September"-- although an analysis of "the dark underside of the 9/11
experience" concludes that 'Katrina Started at Ground Zero.'
Former counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke debunks an "incendiary
claim" in an ABC docudrama, seen as part of a strategy of 'Hijacking
9/11.'
A new historical analogy by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice,
comparing critics of the war in Iraq to Civil War-era slavery
supporters, is called "perhaps the most breathtakingly stupid remark
ever uttered by a Bush administration official."
Israel's spy chief accuses Hezbollah of trying to "create a situation
in Gaza similar to the one in southern Lebanon," and the Jerusalem Post
reports that 'U.S may consider additional aid to IDF,' "if Israel
asks," to help defray expenses.
'West Bank Construction Bids' are said to draw "pro forma American
criticism," as 'Palestinian businessmen wonder why Israel wants them
out,' and a human rights group accuses Israel of "total contempt for
human life" in Gaza.
The decline in terror prosecutions to the pre-9/11 rate does not go
unspun, although the FBI is reportedly having problems in separating
"serious terrorist plotters from delusional dreamers," and white
extremists in the U.K. are threatening to behead British Muslims in new
terror videos.
With the "countdown clock" ticking in the White House, Robert Novak
reports that Bush is "talking about trying to revive his tax and Social
Security reform proposals after the 2006 elections."
As the New York Times reports that Karl 'Rove's Word Is No Longer GOP
Gospel,' James Moore and Wayne Slater call on "The Architect" "and his
political consort" to come out of their closets.
A new Quinnipiac poll finds that Democratic Congressional leaders are
"neither well thought of, nor widely known, to most Americans," while
the party's 2008 presidential hopefuls all rank behind Sen. Joe
Lieberman.
A 'Fortune Teller's Parrot' and an essay on 'Bipartisan Disaster' help
Alexander Cockburn explain why "the War on Terror is the only card the
Bush crowd has ever had that worked for them, and the only riposte from
the Democrats is that they could play the same card better."
September 1-4
The Party of Ideas A Washington Post article quotes Republican
strategists and GOP officials who "All predict one of the most negative
midterm elections in memory, with virtually no positive advertising
from the national GOP committees or individual GOP candidates."
The Pentagon issues a 'gloomy Iraq report,' UPI's Martin Sieff reviews
'benchmarks' during 'Dog days in Iraq,' and the U.S. military announces
that 18 U.S. soldiers have been killed in the last five days, as a
series of "coordinated blasts" kill at least 64 and wound hundreds more
in Baghdad.
With people "lining up for hours" at Iraqi passport offices, and
thousands of Iraqi Arabs flocking to Kurdistan, the U.S. military is
expanding its force in Iraq to 140,000 troops and throwing $20 million
at a public relations campaign "in an effort to promote more positive
coverage of news from Iraq."
Responding to President Bush's latest "stay the course" speech on Iraq,
Fred Kaplan points out that the real crisis "looming in the Middle East
is not the threat to freedom and democracy but rather the threat to
stability," as the WWII-era rhetoric continues to spread.
After challenging the president in the "the reddest of red states,"
Salt Lake City's mayor remarks to Keith Olbermann that "it's astounding
how desperate these people are in avoiding a discussion on the merits,"
and rebukes Fox News for being "the ones who helped sell this war to
the people."
Cataloguing the warmongering of Rupert Murdoch, Richard Neville notes
the publisher's confession that media ventures are "not as important to
me as spreading my personal political beliefs."
"In a state established on a founding myth" writes Jonathan Cook,
"deception becomes a political way of life," so it is not surprising
that post-war exaggerations of damage to people and infrastructure in
Israel have been received as reported fact. Plus: Trial of Hamas
lawmakers adjourned while diplomatic immunity arguments are prepared.
With Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador vowing to form "a parallel leftist
government" in a racially charged post-electoral environment, hundreds
of Mexican law enforcement officers have deployed around Congress to
prevent protesters from disrupting President Vicente Fox's final
national address. Update: 'Mexican lawmakers block Fox's speech.'
The Sandinistas' Daniel Ortega leads the polls in Nicaragua as the
November presidential election approaches, despite increasingly pointed
warnings by the U.S. ambassador, and Bolivia's President Evo Morales
tells Spiegel that "Capitalism has only hurt Latin America."
In 'The Big Disconnect,' Paul Krugman looks at evidence that that
ordinary Americans recognize the disconnect between economic growth and
a decline in wages and real benefits over the last quarter century, and
finds "as good an argument as you could possibly want for a smart, bold
populism."
Thomas Frank observes that "Mounting a campaign against plutocracy
makes as much sense to the typical Washington liberal as would
circulating a petition against gravity," with New Democrats viewing
economic dislocation instead after the fashion of the 19th century as a
matter of "the fitness of the unemployed."
Responding to a new study finding defense and oil CEOs raking in
salaries double and triple those of their counterparts in comparably
sized businesses, industry spokesmen complain that "it's unfair to
criticize CEOs for success in lifting a company's stock price."
Amid the ruined houses and broken infrastructure of New Orleans, Black
Commentator finds a city "still in intensive care," while justice
remains "simply unavailable" for thousands of prisoners still 'living
on Katrina time,' many of whom "have never seen an attorney, never been
arraigned, never appeared before a judge."
As Spike Lee's documentary "When the Levees Collapsed," comes online,
Tom D'Antoni argues, now that "the news cycle has turned," it's time to
"do something for the people of New Orleans."
Texas' Republican Party decries a British TV drama and film festival
"hit" as "shocking" and "disturbing," but the director insists, "It is
a serious and sensitive film. There is no way it would encourage anyone
to assassinate Bush and usher in Cheney's America."
A Salon article underlines the irony and desperation in the GOP kissing
up to 'liberal Chafee,' who is significantly behind his conservative
Republican challenger in the polls, and Ann Coulter contends that "They
shot the wrong Lincoln."
Pensito Review finds one conservative pillorying Katherine Harris "for
not just being crazy and incompetent, but for being crazy and
incompetent to hand the presidency to a possibly crazier, certainly
more incompetent George Bush," as the Onion surveys reaction to her
political theology.
As Tucker Carlson defends a recently captured fugitive cult leader who
is on the FBI's 10 most wanted list, Alternet excerpts "The Sinner's
Guide to the Evangelical Right, and Florida State Senate candidate
Randall Terry's "inconvenient" family values are exposed.
August 31
After "highlighting the tragedy of his own incompetence" in New
Orleans, a "dishonest, war-mongering, human-rights violating" President
Bush gets a "fantastic Utah welcome," as Mayor Rocky Anderson proclaims
that "We are fed lie after lie."
Speaking to "my fellow legionnaires," Bush reportedly "predicted
victory" in what he called "the decisive ideological struggle of the
21st century."
Describing his "extended tour," President Bush said, "They're not
political speeches. We face an enemy that has an ideology. They believe
things. The best way to describe their ideology is to relate to you the
fact that they think the opposite of the way we think."
"Herr Senor" runs into trouble while trying to develop a talking point,
Defense Secretary Rumsfeld gets a "lesson in democracy" from MSNBC's
Keith Olbermann, and Dr. Bill Frist complains that Democrats are "doing
whatever they can to focus that spotlight on Iraq."
A Bush team campaign to 'Cast Foes As Defeatist' reportedly risks
"spraying friendly fire on some of their own candidates," and Paul
Craig Roberts feels he may have "misjudged Rumsfeld's intelligence.
Anyone who can figure out the Muslim conspiracy is off the charts."
As 'Democrats take fire at Rumsfeld,' Helen Thomas urges "spineless"
Dems to drop the "phony timetables" and offer voters "a quick exit from
a bad show."
CJR Daily's Paul McLeary spotlights a "sentence ... worth unpacking,
since it is misleading on so many levels," in a Wall Street Journal
article which reports that "most people ... still oppose the immediate
withdrawal that high-profile Democrats increasingly favor."
While arguing that 'We're Not Winning This War," John Lehman maintains
that the Bush administration "deserves much credit" because "there have
been no successful Islamist attacks" within the U.S. since 9/11.
Earlier: a "reasonable explanation."
Questioning the "obsession with remembering September 11," John
Aravosis protests that "We remember it, ok."
Analyzing "the many weaknesses of the war-on-terror concept," George
Soros argues that "there will be no end to the vicious circle of
escalating violence without a political settlement of the Palestine
question."
U.N. humanitarian chief Jan Egeland said that civilians in Lebanon are
being "maimed, wounded and killed" every day by "as many as 100,000
unexploded cluster bombs, most of which were dropped in the last days
of the war" by Israeli forces.
Reporters and pundits who suggest it's 'Game Over' on the Plame leak
story are said to be 'Missing the Point,' as it's argued that "the
Armitage angle ... is just the latest diversion."
The Pentagon reportedly objects to the practice of predatory lending,
through which military families pay up to 780 percent interest, on
grounds that debt troubles can affect security clearances and "keep
troops from going overseas."
Case studies of "unequal environmental protection" in East Texas and
Middle Tennessee are said to demonstrate that "some Americans just
don't have the 'complexion for protection.'"
GOP incumbent Sen. Conrad Burns, after being hailed as "a wonderful
leader" by First Lady Laura Bush, warned supporters of terrorists who
drive taxi cabs "in the daytime and kill at night," but in Virginia,
it's "only the media" who "actually care" about Macaca.
Air America co-founder Sheldon Drobny reacts to the news that Mike
Malloy, whose nightly sign off included "watch your back," has been
fired.
g adds.
MONEY , what a concept
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Terrorists have won by forcing us through the ASININE security measures.
Terrorists have won by creating an environment where many Americans accept
the stealing of their basic rights.
Conservatives have won by using fear and ignorance to be used to create a
permanent war that lets them steal our rights and funnel money to their war
machine and contractor buddies.
"Harry Hope" <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:5tedg2tluh2grn3ca5tutup2o03rh10pvi@4ax.com...
From The New York Daily News, 9/12/06:
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/451750p-380139c.html
Thanks to Bush, Bin Laden won
By Richard Cohen
I hear Osama Bin Laden laughing.
I heard him all day on Sunday and yesterday as the mass murder of
Sept. 11, 2001, was memorialized at the Pentagon and in that field in
Pennsylvania and, especially, here where the most people died and
where countless cameras recorded it all for posterity and an abiding,
everlasting, anger.
He laughs, the madman does, whenever George Bush says, as he has over
and over, that America is "winning this war on terror."
Osama Bin Laden knows better.
He has already won.
It is not merely that Bin Laden has not been captured or killed and
that videotapes keep coming out of his hideout like taunts;
it is rather that his initial strategy has borne fruit.
He succeeded beyond his wildest expectations when the U.S. responded
to the Sept. 11 attacks by invading Afghanistan and, in a beat, then
going to war in Iraq.
It remains mired in both countries to this day.
From Bin Laden's standpoint, this has been a glorious victory, made
possible, it has to be said, by the totally unforeseen incompetence of
the Bush administration.
It was so intent on going to war in Iraq that it would not finish the
job in Afghanistan.
So the U.S. took on the secular Saddam Hussein, whom Bin Laden himself
would gladly have murdered.
It has to be a wonderful thing when your enemy vanquishes your enemy.
On "Meet the Press" Sunday, Vice President Cheney said if he had to do
it all over again, he would still go to war in Iraq - "we'd do exactly
the same thing," he said.
Why?
Is the man incapable of learning from experience?
We now know from umpteen reports that there was no link between Bin
Laden and Saddam.
We now know that Mohamed Atta did not meet in Prague with Iraqi
intelligence.
We now know that Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction and that
the Iraq war - which has cost America more than 2,500 lives, the
respect of the world and billions of dollars - is for naught.
How did Bin Laden get so lucky?
How did he get so fortunate in his choice of enemies?
The Bush administration not only validated his wildest dreams but went
even further.
By using torture, by the abuses of Abu Ghraib, by employing
"extraordinary renditions" of suspects to countries where they could
be tortured, by telling the international community to shove it, the
U.S. is now reviled in much of the world.
I was here on Sept. 11, 2001 - downtown when the twin towers
collapsed. I would, to this day, kill Osama Bin Laden with my own
hands.
But I have to recognize that from his vantage point, somewhere on the
Pakistan-Afghanistan frontier, he has won.
What he had set out to do, he has done.
That is more than we can say.
_____________________________________________
Harry
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