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Bin Laden knew that destroying a couple of buildings in the US was not going to drive the foriegn devils off the Saudi pennisula. But he also knew that if he could provoke a response from the US, he would stir up a Jihad great enough to acheive his goals.
Bin Laden's goals and the US goals are amazingly similar: Install and maintain despots. For the most part, we are backing "Royal" despots who will sell us oil on a most favored nation basis. Bin Laden wants to install Theological despots who will sell oil as they see fit.
At $100 billion per year to prosecute our military effort in the Middle East vs. Bin Laden's much lower budgeted effort, he is getting "bang for the buck." In a war of attrition, the low budget effort fighting on home ground always has the advantage.
We are draining our resources for very little return on the investment. The hearts and minds of the region (and most of the rest of the world) are firmly set against the US.
How can we eventually win this struggle?
Create a brutal, repressive despot in Iraq to maintain social order and resume oil production. Empower the Royal families of the Persian Gulf to purge their lands of any dissant thought and insure oil production. Militarily repress our enemies unilaterally. Give no quarter and ask for none.
It is all or nothing. Because the only other course of action is to admit our mistakes, give our war criminals (Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, etc.) up for punishment and beg the world for forgiveness.
Scott
Bin Laden's goals and the US goals are amazingly similar: Install and maintain despots. For the most part, we are backing "Royal" despots who will sell us oil on a most favored nation basis. Bin Laden wants to install Theological despots who will sell oil as they see fit.
At $100 billion per year to prosecute our military effort in the Middle East vs. Bin Laden's much lower budgeted effort, he is getting "bang for the buck." In a war of attrition, the low budget effort fighting on home ground always has the advantage.
We are draining our resources for very little return on the investment. The hearts and minds of the region (and most of the rest of the world) are firmly set against the US.
How can we eventually win this struggle?
Create a brutal, repressive despot in Iraq to maintain social order and resume oil production. Empower the Royal families of the Persian Gulf to purge their lands of any dissant thought and insure oil production. Militarily repress our enemies unilaterally. Give no quarter and ask for none.
It is all or nothing. Because the only other course of action is to admit our mistakes, give our war criminals (Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, etc.) up for punishment and beg the world for forgiveness.
Scott