Ever notice how the rightwingers don’t allow comments unless they are heavily skewed moderated? The other side? Totally OK with letting people speak their minds: perhaps their readers have minds to speak?
Bin Laden wasn’t trying to defeat the United States any more than someone who sets off a car bomb in Baghdad is trying to defeat the US armed forces. It was an attack, calculated to cause maximum damage for minimum expenditure. Hell, they didn’t even have to buy the explosives or delivery vehicles. It cost them less than the US paid for one of the four helicopters shot down in Iraq last month. And because of it, the US has directly blown a half a trillion dollars in Iraq.
and almost 6,000 lives (including the WTC victims and the war dead), tens of thousands of long-term wounded, just in the US, not to mention the Iraqis.