Over the past decade, hundreds of thousands of American soldiers, CIA killer teams, mercenaries, predators, and “diplomats” swarmed across the region from Iraq to Afghanistan to Pakistan to Yemen and Somalia, supported by sprawling new bases and pharaonic embassies.
Hostility to the U.S. is high throughout the region. In polls, the majority of those Arabs queried consider the United States a greater threat than al Qaeda.
The upshot - U.S. policy was the best recruiter Osama could have asked for
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oppressive american policy
Osama is a hero
westerners, idiots, do not get it
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quot: Lando, Barry, “Osama Bin Laden - Everyone’s Missing the Point”, i The Huffington Post, May 17, 2011
