Osama bin Laden “bleeds” US economy, strategy remains in place

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What bin Laden and other al-Qaeda members are trying to do is recreate this bastion of Islamic influence, power, and success. 

They have accused Western empires of preventing this from happening in the past few decades.They believe the West purposely maintains a balance of power in the Middle East and suppresses the emergence of a single state strong enough to unite the Muslim world.

Their goal, therefore, is to bring down these Western powers.

Al-Qaeda’s plan is to engage Western empires in costly and long-term conflicts in Muslim countries, drain their economic resources, and bring about their economic demise. They theorize that once Western empires lose their economic strength, they will cease to be relevant as superpowers.

Bin Laden claims to have successfully carried out this plan against the Soviet Union. Now, he’s doing it to the US.

In a video released in 2004, he said the following:

- We, alongside the mujahedeen, bled Russia for 10 years until it went bankrupt and was forced to withdraw in defeat.

- We are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy. Allah willing, and nothing is too great for Allah.

- All that we have to do is to send two mujahedeen to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth on which is written al Qaeda, in order to make generals race there to cause America to suffer human, economic and political losses without their achieving anything of note other than some benefits for their private corporations.