rob_just_rob
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Osama bin Laden brought down the towers in an attempt to provoke a fight. He was willing to bet that the west doesn't have the stomach for what it would take to defeat radical islam. It's looking like he's pretty shrewd.
He and his kind hate our decadence, our women's rights, our tolerance of gays and are determined to keep it away and/or to destroy it if they can.
9/11 was an opening move in a terrible, complex game.
America tolerates gays?
Why exactly does OBL hate "our decadence, women's rights..." etc.? Are you sure OBL and friends don't hate America's sponsorship of Israel, its military presence in Iraq (now) and Saudi Arabia (earlier), and its history of propping up unpopular dictatorships in the region, instead?
I mean, if you're going to try to drum up hate in a particular audience, it's easier to base the hate on concrete things that the audience has experienced. Many (if not most) in OBL's support base have never been to America, and have never experienced all the awful tolerance, rights, and celebrity culture. But they would remember the bases in Saudi Arabia, and some might even remember the Shah. To say nothing of Israel.