Bin Laden 'won war against West'

[ocdem]

By Duraid Al Baik, Foreign Editor


Dubai: A leading expert on terrorism believes Osama Bin Laden has already won the war against the West and warned if politicians fail to come up with a coherent plan to deal with the threat, the future was bleak.

Nikola Zlobin, Director of Russian and Asian Programmes at the Washington-based World Security Institute believes attempts to contain the threat of terrorism had been botched.

"Social and financial resources allocated to fight terrorism are depleting quickly. The quality of life for people in the western world is declining steadily and the war seems to be endless," he said.

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[Demeter]

1. Yeah, Bush Hit Himself In The Glass Jaw. Too Stupid to Live n/t

[bemildred]

2. The "war on terrorism" is, and always was, bullshit.

Hence it cannot be won, or lost. It is a propaganda meme, like the "war on poverty", the "war on drugs", and a long list of other wars promulgated by our war-happy leaders looking for distractions and ways to avoid making real changes in how things are run.

[CJCRANE]

3. Halliburton won n/t

[qwlauren35]

4. How painfully not funny.

Wouldn't that be ironic, if the entire "plan" of Al-Qaeda was to decimate our funds and moral by inciting us into an unnecessary war that diverted attention from the resources necessary to maintain our social infrastructure.

There is a very ugly truth here.