Osama Ben Laden I would turn in.
Quite eagerly.
But if he could adress us with impunity , or from a cell I would argue with him, yes.
I feel confident that his ideas could be refuted with logic and facts, Osama has never proven to be a real student of history , in spite of what he says he seems to have little idea of what Americans are like or what we can do or even how long we can keep on doing it.
I think that if we really need to fight his people for generations we certainly can , if we loose patience we are less likely to surrender to him than to simply resort to more harmfull methods and allow more colleteral damage to accrue around our targets.
In the very first place his man Mohemmed Atta proved that he had no need to attack us at all, then the aftermath of 9-11 proved that his chosen method of attack is severely counterproductive. Many places that Al Queda was welcome it now is not.
The whole world is waiting for the Al Queda to have another big success , it is almost inevitable that someday a big dummy like Richard Reed will blunder through security checks with enough explosive in his shoes to wreck an aircraft. At that time the US will be enraged enough to burn down another Islamic government stupid enough to harbor the Al Quieda and all of the others will become more strict again hopeing to strangle Al Quieda suffeciently to prevent Americans from showing up.
President Bush was successfull enough to allow our people to begin to scoff at the danger posed by Al Queda , the president at the time of the next Al Queda success , or elese the next one elected will have to promise the American people stronger action than President Bush ever considered, he will not have any other choice.
So yea ,Rich, I would relish a chance to argue with OBL, but unfortuneately, I suspect he would be no better at it than you are.
