wade said:
Bush of course. Bush has done everything Bin-Ladin hoped he would do. Bin-Ladin believes this war will destroy America, just like the war in Afghanistan destroyed the Soviet Union. He believes God will side with Islam, so of course they cannot loose.
That is what he believes (not saying he is correct in this - that is another debate) - so he would clearly vote for Bush.
But you would be saying that OBL credits himself and the Mujahadeen with defeating the Soviet Union (as opposed to say, the USA and our allies over half a century of war and conflict)?
OBL is a meglomaniac, and might have dreamed that his power and his cause would be able to take on America and the West and achieve his goals. But he drastically underestimated America's resolve and actions since 9-11, and vastly overestimated the support he would be able to secure for his cause from the 'Arab street' soon thereafter.
At that critical moment in late 2001 perhaps OBL might have achieved his goal of inspiring a mass uprising to overthrow the Arab regimes and unite them all behind him under a new Islamic Caliphate, but this is where otherwise intelligent people like Bin-Laden end up being proven wrong.
The movement we saw on the 'Arab street' died out, and the bases and sanctuaries for their cause has dwindled. Cash from vast Arab charities around the world has not stopped, but has been cut to trickle.
And of the orginal members, 3 out of 4 have been captured or killed. After more than three years, any credibility for their cells left in the West has been lost after several assured acts promised failed to materialize.
Bin-Laden and his decleration that the Arab people will follow the 'stronger horse' is not subject to much interpretation and distortion beyond the fact that obviously, Al-Queda terminally miscalculated how their attacks on America on 9-11 would unfold to their advantage.
