Sunday, April 22, 2007

Karl and Osama

Cannonfire comments on Karl Rove's statement that Osama bin Laden started the pre-emptive war business.

I cannot agree completely, since evidence indicates that the invasion of Iraq was in the planning stages well before 9/11. However, when Osama got the memo, I'm sure he wrote the Arabic equivalent of "I love it!" in the margins.

The invasion of a secular government detested by Al Qaeda? A government that had never attacked the United States? A military action against Arabs that would make Bin Laden look like a prophet throughout the Islamic world? An action that would radicalize all Muslims and magnify anti-U.S. sentiment?

From Osama Bin Laden's point of view, what was there not to love?

What makes us so sure bin Laden is a former CIA agent? Or at the very least, a man who made a deal.


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