At 19:04 14/09/01 -0400, David Charlap wrote:
That's why he did this. Read his speeches and statements. It's all right there. He really believes Islam would beat the west. It might seem ridiculous, but he figures if he can polarize the world into Islam and the West, he's got a billion soldiers. If the west wreaks a holocaust in those lands, that's a billion people with nothing left to lose, that's even better from Bin Laden's point of view. He's probably wrong, in the end the west would win, whatever that would mean, but the war would last for years and millions would die, not just theirs but ours. Who has the belly for that? Bin Laden does. Anyone else?
The real problem is that this war is going to happen sooner or later, whether we want it or not.
Sooner: http://asia.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/africa/09/12/religion.nigeria.reut/ No Israelis/Jews/Americans in Nigeria at last count. Same been going on in Indonesia, Chechnya, Malyasia, Phillipines, etc. for the past 2-3 years. -Hank