Reply #49: Because we're spending all we borrow on senseless wars and militarism. Osama won. [View All]

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

If anyone can claim "Mission Accomplished" it's Osama. He's spread Al-Queda internationally, he's proven that the "Mightiest Military in the World" is incapable of subduing a 3rd World nation with a wrecked military and a rag-tag insurgency, he's made the United States the most feared and hated nation on earth, he's got "The World's Greatest Economy" in the toilet, he's shown that "the land of the free and the home of the brave" is a laughable charade, he's outwitted the CIA, DIA, MI-6, and all the rest of alphabet soup "intelligence" agencies, he's bogged us down in two unwinnable wars with no end in sight. In short, he's wrecking what remains of the American Empire.

But, he wasn't alone. He had the absolutely essential aid of a nincompoop fratboy president, a cowardly and complicit congress, and the flag-waving "patriotism" of the American citizenry who cheered him on.