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: 09-25-2008
Thu, 09-25-2008 - 1:16am

He didn't blame the defaulting homeowners in California

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Thu, 09-25-2008 - 3:03am

Eh! I think he won long ago already, by getting the US bogged down in two wars of attrition that she can not win. That was his goal and it came out in spades.

The wars have not helped the economy, but unless all the sleaze-bags on Wall Street and their cronies in DC (some of whom are now trying to bail them out) are members of al-Qaeda, I don't think bin Laden can take full credit for this one.

iVillage Member
Registered: 07-03-2008
Thu, 09-25-2008 - 8:40am
Greed is what brought us to this situation. Plus LIAR LOANS.
iVillage Member
Registered: 04-04-2003
Thu, 09-25-2008 - 8:39pm

I agree. I think Bin Laden

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