I agree. Turning Osama in to a folk hero for the Muslim world was a PR mistake of great proportions. Now we couldn't ignore 9/11, and I don't suggest we should have, but we should have treated it the way Brits treated the Blitz (which was, I think, like many many months of 9/11's). They proudly stated as a country that life would go on as usual, and that nothing "changes everything". Quite a bit of spine in those Brits. I'm just sorry we didn't have more public spine, but nothing to be done about the past, except learn from it- take a little something from the stoics, and stiffen our backs a little- and of course quit aiding our enemies by making them in to giants when they are actually fairly low tech angry ideological munchkins- who got lucky with 9/11- but considering the wide open nature of our country, they could have done SO much more damage- so they aren't really very smart, and their clearly aren't very many of them here. Any bright person can think of 100's of ways to easily sabotage all manner of things- and my husband and I agree, it's a very good thing they aren't clever, and they obviously aren't very prolific here.
And although we've helped to create Mac Qaeda in Iraq- a franchise of Al- it's obvious that most of those recruits are really nationalists, using Al Qaeda as an organization mantra. Most of them aren't likely to leave Iraq, imo. |
