Captured al-Qaeda documents reveal that Osama bin Laden’s principal goal in the 9/11 attacks was to lure the United States into a clumsy counterattack in the Middle East that would alienate Muslims, help al-Qaeda recruit more jihadists and bog down the American military in a no-win war.The blunders started that December, three short months after 9/11 - we could have ended the lives of bin Laden and all of his closest henchmen.
...As he found himself cornered in the mountains of Tora Bora, bin Laden apologized to his followers for bringing them to the edge of destruction.
But then, in what may go down as one of the biggest military blunders in U.S. history, President George W. Bush failed to deploy American troops to block bin Laden’s escape routes, relying instead on Pakistani forces that were slow to move into place. Bin Laden and some of his top lieutenants escaped on horseback.
Bush then compounded his error by redirecting the focus of U.S. Special Forces from Afghanistan to Iraq. Al-Qaeda and the Taliban were badly bloodied but survived – and began to regroup.
By Robert Parry-ConsortiumNews
They were trapped, they were wailing their last good-byes, but Bush and Tommy Franks 'privatized' that job, too.
The bigger blunder of course, was not finishing the job with bin Laden and al-Qaeda by diverting ourselves into the quagmire in Iraq.
Osama bin Laden wanted the United States to react the way we did. Screw up the mission of killing his cowering ass, and then attack another Islamic state and stir up the entire Middle East.
Threw that Bastard right into that briar patch...
This all should have been taken care of five years ago.
