Anniversary

[joanna bujes]

At 10:14 PM 09/18/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Bin Laden's theory seemed to be that the US was too cowardly to respond, or
>would be easily beaten. Draw the US into Afghanistan, and then destroy them
>(thereby showing the superiority of Wahabism I guess). Seems to have been a
>bit of a failure.

Nah. The goal was to provoke a "war of civilizations" - Done!!! The point 
was to show the vulnerability of the U.S.: Done!!! As for destroying U.S. 
in Afghanistan: give it some time; a year aint nothing.

Joanna