http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/09/04/andrew-sullivan-asks-did-osama-win-on-9-11.html
We now know that the chief goal of Osama bin Laden and his attacks on 9/11 was to provoke a civilizational war between Islam and the West. He used the attacks, on innocent people as well as the government, to provoke panic, fear, and devastation, which would later lead to irrational action. We, of course, followed the government and took this bait, dispatching troops to Iraq to engage in the war bin Laden hoped to start. It was a foolish decision, as it has now put the country into an economic recession and cost us countless lives, but we, in our panic, couldn't do anything but follow the government, and the government's choice was war. He succeeded in that area, but he never really succeeded in making a lasting conflict between the West and Islam. The US is finally pulling troops out of Iraq and we have chosen, of all people, Barack Hussein Obama, to lead the country that was supposed to oppose Islam. Bin Laden wasn't the one that won, it was us that lost; we lost ourselves to our fear and to general panic.
We now know that the chief goal of Osama bin Laden and his attacks on 9/11 was to provoke a civilizational war between Islam and the West. He used the attacks, on innocent people as well as the government, to provoke panic, fear, and devastation, which would later lead to irrational action. We, of course, followed the government and took this bait, dispatching troops to Iraq to engage in the war bin Laden hoped to start. It was a foolish decision, as it has now put the country into an economic recession and cost us countless lives, but we, in our panic, couldn't do anything but follow the government, and the government's choice was war. He succeeded in that area, but he never really succeeded in making a lasting conflict between the West and Islam. The US is finally pulling troops out of Iraq and we have chosen, of all people, Barack Hussein Obama, to lead the country that was supposed to oppose Islam. Bin Laden wasn't the one that won, it was us that lost; we lost ourselves to our fear and to general panic.
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