Kan være Osama bin Laden er ond, kan være han er en nutcase, men hans kollektive kald til muslimer verden over har resonans, og han kender USA's svagheder. Justin Raimondo skriver på AntiWar:
Endless war will eventually destroy us, not due to bin Laden’s efforts, but on account of our own. This is what they call "blowback," in CIA parlance: the consequences, however unintended, of U.S. actions abroad. The boomerang effect is already taking a heavy toll, and it will get heavier still – which is what bin Laden is counting on.
Given the direction our leaders are taking us – more wars, and bigger ones, in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and now Somalia – bin Laden is not wrong to count on our exhaustion and coming defeat. He simply has to wait us out – and time is on his side.
We have, it seems to me, never taken bin Laden and al-Qaeda all that seriously, and that, ultimately, will be our undoing. In him we face an unrelenting and devilishly intelligent enemy, one who knows our weaknesses and leverages them to his advantage.
The only way to defeat bin Laden is to change our foreign policy – not by putting lipstick on a pig and murmuring sweet nothings in the ear of the Muslim world, as Obama did in Cairo, but by doing a complete about-face and abandoning our dreams of empire. Short of that, bin Laden’s satanic self-confidence, I’m sad to say, is fully justified.
