Whose figure is it sitting in the director's chair? Osama bin Laden's or George W's ?

Question

From the events I've witnessed unfolding since 9/11, it seems thar George W. and the neo-cons have fallen for the bait Osama layed out for them.

George W., Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, etc., all eagerly jumped into Osama's script.

Why did they choose to do the very things that Osama was telling the Arab world that we would do?

I see a succession of errors that the U.S. has made under George W. that has only served to infuse Osama with a level of credibility he never would have reached otherwise.

It's almost as if the principals in our government picked up copies of Osama's script and obediently began reciting the lines from its pages and doing the deeds it was written down in the script for them to do.

It is so frustratinng for me to witness this process unfold and to see our credibility in the world dissipate almost overnight.

After the events of 9/11, I've never seen such a motherlode of political capital squandered in such a short period of time.

Why?!!!

Answer 1

No, Osama never thought the US would come after him. He thought that the US was to weak (in spirit) to attack Afghanistan. He thought there would not be retaliation for the 9/11 attack and he would be able to make similar attacks in the future. Eventually, he thought he would be able to destroy the US. What is happening now, was not Osama's plan.