Posted
12/03/2009 06:29:00 PM
by Douglas
From the sucker punch that was the 9/11 attacks, what would have been Bin Laden's
best outcome? Sadly, I think it's something like
this:We do have a pretty good idea how bin Laden pictured victory. It looks a lot like what we’re seeing now. He wanted a holy war. We gave him two. We’ve compromised our values, rolled back civil liberties, and let our politicians generally scare the crap out of us whenever they want new powers. Oh, and we’ve let the bastard live to gloat about it all.
I still think it's funny that the Pentagon (along with the talking heads on TV) talk about victory, as if there ever could be one. And troop withdrawal? We're still occupying Germany and Japan for god's sake.