Did Osama Bin Laden Win?

Osama Bin Laden

Tom Engelhardt, Real Clear World/'Tom Dispatch: Fourteen Years Later: Did Bin Laden Win?

Fourteen years later and do you even believe it? Did we actually live it? Are we still living it? And how improbable is that?

Fourteen years of wars, interventions, assassinations, torture, kidnappings, black sites, the growth of the American national security state to monumental proportions, and the spread of Islamic extremism across much of the Greater Middle East and Africa. Fourteen years of astronomical expense, bombing campaigns galore, and a military-first foreign policy of repeated defeats, disappointments, and disasters. Fourteen years of a culture of fear in America, of endless alarms and warnings, as well as dire predictions of terrorist attacks.

WNU Editor: Osama Bin Laden certainly knew the right buttons to push. 14 years later .... we are still being impacted by what he planned and did .... and I predict we will still be impacted by his actions decades from now.