Touche. And he's right. Bin Laden wanted the US to invade Afghanistan and get bogged down in an endless war. In fact, we gave him two. Here's what Joe Klein had to say on TIME's blog:
I was thinking about posting yesterday about McCain's cheesy nonsense about Obama being endorsed by Hamas. If McCain wants to go that route, I can suggest another: that John McCain is probably the favorite candidate of Osama bin Laden, just as George W. Bush was Osama's presidential preference....I remember studying Latin American terrorism/revolutionaries in the 1980s (Shining Path in Peru, FARC in Colombia). What the terrorists wanted were hard-nosed right-wing governments that would clamp down on civil liberties as a response to terrorist attacks, thus ticking off the people, causing more social tensions, and pushing the country ever close to exploding internally. Terrorists thrive on conservative governments. And if John McCain wants to play the terror card, let's play it. Because he wins.
The war in Iraq has been a grand strategic gift to Osama, keeping the U.S. military tied down elsewhere and off his tail.
Ron Suskind had a relevant scene in his excellent book The One Percent Doctrine: It's the Friday before election day in 2004 and Osama bin Laden has issued a videotape in which he lambastes President Bush. The top dawgs at the CIA are gathered to analyze the tape. Dep. Director John McLaughlin says, "I wonder who Osama is voting for?" Everyone cracks up because the answer is so obvious.
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