George Friedman Quotes

Osama Bin Laden Wanted To Coax Just The Right Response Out Of The United States By Creating A Situation In Which The United States Could Not Ignore Him. His Goal Was To Cross A Threshold That Americans Would Deem Intolerable (something Bin Laden Had Failed To Do With His Previous Attacks On The U.S. Embassies In Africa Or The USS Cole In Yemen), Causing A Massive Attack To Be Launched On The Islamic World That Used The Most Advanced And Sophisticated Methods Available. Bin Laden Was Confident That If The U.S. Plunged Into The Islamic World, He Would Get The Uprising He Wanted. He Had Studied The Afghan War Against The Soviets Carefully. He Felt He Knew How To Survive The Initial American Attack And, Over Time, Defeat The Americans. But First, He Needed The Americans To Attack.

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