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Is Osama bin Laden Winning?

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Osama bin Laden, through his organization Al-Qaeda, cannot win his war against the United States unless we help him. He can destroy the World Trade Center, kill thousands of Americans, and repeat such destruction of property and life many times but still not win. If we help him, however, by reacting in a way that destroys American values, he will win.

Is he winning? I am fearful that he is. The U. S. attack on Afghanistan was a proper defensive response. Afghanistan was, without question, the training ground of the enemy. The world knew it and supported our action. Iraq is a different story. There was no credible evidence connecting Iraq to bin Laden or Al-Qaeda. World opinion did not support an American invasion of Iraq. The invasion of a sovereign power that had not attacked nor conspired to attack the U. S. defamed America in the eyes of the world and violated America’s values. The American people would not have tolerated it but for the panic created by 9-ll. Chalk up a big one for bin Laden. The cost of the war in Iraq to America in lives, physical and mental suffering, treasury and world support is an added bonus for him.

There are other examples. We have violated American values with our treatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere. The Executive branch of our government is monitoring private communications without a warrant issued by the Judicial branch and without following the legal procedures set out by the Legislative branch. This usurpation of Judicial and Legislative powers by the Executive branch goes to the heart of Americanism. After suffering under England’s King George, the framers of our constitutuion separated power between the three branches to check and limit the powers of the Executive branch. Have we introduced a new King George, i.e., King George W., by reacting in panic to bin Laden?

Why are we fighting bin Laden if it is not to protect and preserve the very values we are trashing in our efforts against him? We are giving bin Laden far too much help.

I am not questioning the good intentions of President Bush and his administration; I believe they have America’s best interests at heart. They have, however, unintentionally played directly into the hands of Osama bin Laden, to our peril. -TEB

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