Did bin Laden win?

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Did bin Laden win?
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Wed, 09-24-2008 - 9:59pm

Isn't this what he wanted all along? He always said that the U.S. couldn't be defeated militarily, but could be beaten economically.


Think about it. He created and act of terror, guessing the U.S. would come after him, expend massive amounts of treasure doing so, and the chase would cause a paralysis in the economic system.


Isn't it working? Through deficit financing, we have used up all our capital, and now the economic system, so we are told, is shutting down. 


Did he create a phantom that kept this administration chasing it's tail, while the soundness of the financial system, bloated by deficit financing and lacking oversight, closed down? After all, the bubble was originally created by the lowering interest rates to keep full employment over the last six years and to finance two wars. Two invasions that didn't catch him and a huge amount of paper, rather than tax dollars were expended. And isn't the deficit what is causing the shutdown of the economic system.


Now that America is essentially broke, we don't have the money to intervine around the world. Now that most of our money is simply going to pay for past debts, we no longer have the ability to operate a sustained operation on all fronts against Islamic terrorist who are home grown.


Even if he is killed or captured now, it doesn't matter. He has handed the power off to his lieutenants and they can keep fighting. He has accomplished every one of his goals that he sat out to accomplish. And now he has a free hand to influence uprising around the world, without interference from the U.S., now too broke to stop him.


Didn't he win?

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iVillage Member
Registered: 09-19-2008
Wed, 09-24-2008 - 10:02pm
Bin Laden was secretly in charge of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac?
iVillage Member
Registered: 04-02-2008
Wed, 09-24-2008 - 10:04pm

Maybe for the New York Wall Street but my state is doing very well financially and I am actually doing better than last year.

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 09-24-2008 - 10:12pm

bin Laden knew that the neocons, leading the pocketbook patriots (Yes, I support the war, as long as I don't have to pay for it.) would run up the national debt to the point it would break the system.


Surely you don't believe that this crisis was caused by some homeowners in California who defaulted on some mortgages, do you? Surely you cannot deny the huge deficiets that the Bush Administration ran up, with the whole "supply side" eco-baubble is the real cause of this credit crisis?


There was no problem when WorldCom and Enron folded five year ago. But the deficits since, due to the "sunshine patriots" who supported the war as long as the debt was hidden, have caused a credit crisis due to too much debt, most of which was sucked up by the Bush Administrations "no new taxes" to pay for this war.


I'd say a very tall, thin man in a cave in Pakistan is laughing his rear off.

iVillage Member
Registered: 04-02-2008
Wed, 09-24-2008 - 10:14pm
so are you saying the defaulting homeowners in California are in cahoots with binladen to take down our economic system?
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-25-2007
Wed, 09-24-2008 - 10:18pm

Sopal

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iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 09-24-2008 - 10:19pm
I didn't say that, and you know it. If you do not know it, I refer you to my original post.
iVillage Member
Registered: 09-22-2008
Wed, 09-24-2008 - 10:21pm
No -
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 09-24-2008 - 10:24pm

But the question is, wasn't economic instability of America, so they could not stop the Islamic revolutionist always one of the key goals of bin Ladin? And didn't the Bush administration, playing into a "deficit be damned plan" play right along, as bin Ladin hoped they would?

iVillage Member
Registered: 04-02-2008
Wed, 09-24-2008 - 10:26pm
You inferred it!
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-25-2007
Wed, 09-24-2008 - 10:28pm

I don't think he saying that at all.

Sopal

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