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Originally Posted by Sliver
Disagree. 9/11 set in motion the financial ruin of the USA. That is how the terrorists won and what will be remembered in history.
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Its funny that this was an un-intended consequence in Bin Laden's plan. the idea was to draw the American's into a war in Afghanistan and bleed them white.
Bin Laden had no illusions that he was going to win, he also didn't quite have a handle on the American response based on his apology radio message to his other leaders when the American's had him cornered.
Of course the American's then blew it and had to wait nearly 10 years to get him.
At the end of the day Bin Laden and Al Queda had one shot and took it, and have been on the run ever since, they have themselves been bled white and are a shadow of their former power.
The American's had a simple chance for revenge, they could have ended the war on terror very quickly if they had put all of their efforts into Afghanistan and Al Queda and the Taliban, instead they flittered away their strength by trying to fight two wars at the same time.