Over at
huffpo Bill Cusack has said it all:
Osama Bin Laden is Kicking George Bush Ass
... An ass kicking isn't just getting bitch slapped, it's getting viciously, relentlessly pummeled to the point where you are forever changed. ...
...Bin Laden said to anyone listening he wants to get the U.S. military en masse in the Middle East. Today's Iraq shows why he worked so hard to make that happen. The tragedy here is that Bin Laden was wrong- he could never have bled us to death in Afghanistan. Had Bush immediately gone into Afghanistan with overwhelming numbers and sealed the border Bin Laden would be dead by now, he could have forced Pakistan and Saudi Arabia to stop supporting terrorists and 9/11 would not have been a turning point in world history. But Bush, it turns out, wanted Iraq all along,....
Cusack spells out, in plainer language than I've ever seen, exactly what bin Laden's play was, and how and why Bush and his Whacky Friends have fallen for it, and in a way beyond bin Laden's wildest dreams!
Neo Cons believe a zero tolerance confrontational policy will get Radical Islam to re-think their extremist/terrorist tactics and force moderate Muslims to rise up against their radical governments creating a democracy domino effect that will justify all American activities in the Middle East and make the world happy and safe and lovely. Bin Laden knows nothing of the sort will happen. I have no idea why Neo Cons would believe such a thing. There is absolutely no evidence to support this theory. When Muslims, moderates, radicals, whoever, are pushed into a corner they do not shrink and get all shocked and awed and become introspective and go for long morning walks and read Emerson under a tree and mull things over. They swarm like killer bees.
He gives a timeline like you ain't seen for the various Bush failures: helping Iran's position, providing al qaeda with a low cost war to drain the US (you just need to teach the Iraqi nationalists), Katrina, and including
Al Qaeda goes about re-establishing themselves in Afghanistan and Pakistan ... Afghanistan rebounds Al Qaeda's way so they begin fomenting simoultaneous unrest all over Iraq. Whenever the US cleans out a city, Al Qaeda, Iran or Iraqi insurgents swoop back in when the exausted troops leave and reestablish themselves easy as pie. The US is constantly moving, stretching, reconquering and rebuilding, exausting its troops physically and emotionally.
Cusack wrote a very long article. Another quote isn't going to break the bank, because every word in it is necessary to prove that bin Laden is kicking Bush's ass.
...At this point the Bush ass kicking has reached the stage where he's losing consciousness. His legs are rubber and his eyes are rolling up in his head, unfocused and empty. His arms uselessly flail at shadows. He's about to drop, and when he does, that's when the real pummeling will start. ...
Cusack's article is a goldmine of reason and sense. Here is really just a fraction. Go read.
Add-on thought: Why this article is valuable and important is because it is a body blow to Bush's strength: his "success" in the war on terror.