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        Imperial Hubris --Why the West is Losing the War on Terror   "U.S. fighting a worldwide Islamic insurgency --not criminality or terrorism" by former CIA station chief  "The focused and lethal threat posed to U.S. national security arises not from Muslims being offended by what America is, but rather from their plausible perception that the things they most love and value -- God, Islam, their brethren and Muslim lands -- are being attacked by America," MSNBC

• 5/02/06   Behind Enemy Lines  reviews of 8 books on bin Laden, very profound overview of the war,  
  various quotes, experts' analyses, objectives, strengths, weaknesses, etc.  THE NATION

• 10/15/04  The War Bin Laden Wanted -- "to provoke the U.S. into actually attacking Muslim countries, using its awesome weapons against pitifully outmatched Muslim forces, destroying and humiliating them, killing and wounding civilians and destroying much property, occupying more Muslim land, and miring itself in an attempt to control what it had conquered and to impose its secular values and institutions on Arab and Muslim societies. From this would arise the chance to demonstrate that faithful Muslims under leaders and movements like bin Laden and al-Qaeda could be David to America’s Goliath. If they could not immediately slay the oppressor, they could survive its onslaught, grow and spread despite it, and gradually reduce it to a helpless giant, isolated from its former friends, trapped in an interminable occupation of hostile territory and peoples, with its armed forces stretched thin and its awesome weapons unusable, while al-Qaeda and similar groups could continue to launch even bolder attacks against it or anyone still associated with it."
• 8/20/04  U.S. Totally Fails Public Diplomacy in Muslim World  Congress won't fund, lobbies want to spend money on weapons
• 7/21/04  Could America's Enemies Have Planned it Better?  to discredit America in the whole world by Paul Krugman
• 7/18/04  Discredited U.S. and British Intelligence Services means help for fanatics worldwide
• 7/8/04   Al Qaeda Strength growing in Saudi Arabia & other nations
• 7/6/04    Mounting Costs of Iraq War 
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• 6/28/04  Bush Re-igniting the Nuclear Arms Race   --plans for "usable" nukes undermine limitation agreements, curtail collaboration with Russia on limitations, make nuke war more likely and more nuke material available for theft by terrorists
• 6/27/04  Hatred of America now uniting Sunnis and Shiias  Al-Qaeda Sunnis and Iran Shiias had much cooperation--U.S. intelligence used to think animosities would prevent them from working together
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• 6/25/04  Federal Sending Increasing at Fastest Rate since 30 years   bin Laden effort to bankrupt America --Bush caves in on domestic spending to gain support for foreign wars
• 6/24/04  Turkey Pulling Away from U.S.  "The Turkish government is steadily altering its geopolitical alignments away from the United States, with the goal of increasing its influence in the Arab world and finally gaining admission to the European club. There is no formal rupture in relations with the United States on the horizon -- geography and the country's pro-U.S. military dictate that the two states retain their cooperative relations at some level -- but Turkey's mildly Islamist government is well into an evolution that will make it a much more independent player."
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• 6/24/04  The Toll of "No More Iraqs"  "The souring of America on intervention abroad has major strategic implications for the United States and for the world. The threshold for preventive war, for example, will be raised significantly for the immediate future. Intelligence on weapons of mass destruction and the intentions of dictators or terrorist gangs that seem to possess them are unlikely to be sufficiently clear to meet the standards for action demanded by the post-facto doubts and recriminations on Iraq. Intelligence analysis will become even more cautious and ambiguously stated to policymakers. Vulnerability to surprise attack could grow again."
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• 6/23   "U.S. fighting a worldwide Islamic insurgency --not criminality or terrorism" by former CIA station chief writes book,   "Imperial Hubris"  Bin Laden gloats at Iraq war, U.S. losing war on terror
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• 6/22  Report Faults U.S. Action on Nuke Proliferation  Bush so hot to invade Iraq that neglected efforts to isolate, protect and destroy fissionable material to keep away from terrorists
• 6/15  State Dept. Urges Americans to Leave Saudi Arabia --says safety more important than oil --35,000 live there-exactly what Bin Laden wants, U.S. out of Saudi Arabia
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• 6/14  Army Re-enlistments Way Down
• 6/14  Religious Extremism Sweeping Iraq --Sunnis too
• 6/14  Our Weary Army --Stretched, designed for conquest, not occupation

• 6/14  Saudi Aramco Wants Foreign Guards - doesn't trust Saudis and not trained
• 6/11  How Terrorists Think  and how Bush fell into Bin Laden's trap--Financial Times
• 6/6  National Guard Strained to Limit --few left for home state emergencies
• 6/3  U.S. Army Extend tours of duty  to unwilling soldiers and reservists
• 5/29 Al-Qaeda May Be Winning --Stronger now then before 9/11   JANE'S
•      New Generation of Osamas Emerging STRAITS TIMES  --motivated by hate for U.S. and any nation or government that helps it
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• "The great polarization of Arabs and Muslims against the America of George W. Bush that was the dream of bin Laden has been made reality by the Iraq war." Pat Buchanan 5/19
• "Osama sought to conflate his war with the Arab cause. It was in our interest to keep them separate. But the invasion of Iraq – an attack on an Arab country that did not attack us and did not want war with us – united and aroused the Arab world against us, and with bin Laden."     Pat Buchanan
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• 5/25/04  Think Tank Report on more Al-Qaeda volunteers --boosted by American attack on Iraq
• 5/25/04  Holy Shite Shrine Damaged in Najaf   perhaps damage done by rebel forces, but fighting near it makes Americans seem responsible = more hatred--story broadcast to Muslim world --problem was making town a battleground in the first place
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• Green Card Blues for America's Image
• 5/6/04  U.S. Prisons Becoming Breeding Grounds for Terrorist Recruiting  As Washington makes America the enemy of world's Muslims, future terrorists won't all be Arabs, many will be homegrown and pass easily in our society
• 5/4/04   U.S. Seeks to Limit Damage from Pictures
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• 4/15/04  Bin Laden Tape Offers Europe Peace --says America started the wars-Eurpean leaders deny any effect
• Why Soft Power Matters in Fighting Terrorism --Rumsfeld says, "I don't know what Soft Power is"
• 4/8/03  --Boycotting of American Goods   Feared, but not too much effect so far outside of Muslim world
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• New Foreign Polling Showing Decline in Good Will Towards America since attack on Iraq
• America's Need for International Legitimacy    "a decent respect for the opinions of mankind" by Robert Kagan
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• 12/10/03 Bin Laden is Winning -The Guardian lists the ways
• 1/6/04 Daily Dehumanization of Palestinians   creating anti-Jewish and anti-American hatred worldwide
• Bin Laden Gloats  interviewed by James Pinkerton (Reagan official)
• 9/15/03 Exactly Where Bin Laden Wants Us  alone against whole Muslim world  by Pat Buchanan
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• 4/03/03  Boycotts of American Goods rising
• Lost War and Lost Prestige for America  terrorists energized
• Foreign visitors/students way down --U.S. doing to itself what Bin Laden wanted, i.e. cutting its influence in the world
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• 12/15  Israelis are Training U.S. forces in Supression Methods    confirming accusations that U.S. and Israel in joint league against Muslim world--exactly what Bin Laden wants
• 11/24  State Dept. Warns Americans Everywhere in the World
• 11/24  German Intelligence Chief Warns of Growing Al-Qaida power
• 11/28   Locking Out Foreign Brainpower

• Bin Laden is winning the propaganda war
• America's Loss of "Soft Power"
• Small Charities Stop Giving Overseas  because of new "anti-terror" government regulations
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• Bin Laden Isolates U.S. from Allies -- World turns against Washington
• U.S. Closes Yemen Embassy  after "victory" of missile killing al-Qaeda leader-- other Americans advised to leave country
• More Worries if trade conflict with Europe       

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• Revival of Trade Protectionism Puts Economy at Risk  --gradually separating America from its allies--USA TODAY
• Bin Laden's 3 Demand--2 are met  leaving Saudi Arabia and stopping Iraq blockade, now for Israel Palestine peace and war on terror will be won
• Bush Flying into bin-Laden's Trap objective is overthrow of pro-US Arab regimes   by Robert Fisk
• Killing Bin Laden won't change much--New ones will follow him   

"It is a big mistake for us to grant any validity to international law even when it may seem in our short-term interest to do so -- because, over the long term, the goal of those who think that international law really means anything are those who want to constrict the United States." John Bolton (Asst. Secretary of State for International Organizations) U.S. policy enunciated before 9/11 --Bolton is a leading neo-conservative      How it all Started --Reaping the Whirlwind by Eric Margolis 8/98