As far as I can tell, Bin Laden was successful in forcing the USA to invade, uni

https://www.stratfor.com/weekly/death-and-destruction-bin-ladens-true-legacy?utm_source=freelist-f&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Saturdaysend160406&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8Ib75IA6nQMrQbss73G6ahn9DtMaWWWMx32US_P3nqaU-VwIMJeGviwJEuFI1Bz7AlLhw-S7AH3FLTHjULKArRgNgmbA&_hsmi=29346704Scott,

As far as I can tell, Bin Laden was successful in forcing the USA to invade, unifying his people against the west, and causing multiple revolutions against the status quo (weak fragmented states), in order to restore the islamic empire.

That this will likely result in a combination of Iranian/northern and Arabian/southern core states (at least), and result in the invasion of the west by islam (despite our resistance for 1500 years) would likely thrill him as greater success than he’d intended.

I can’t actually understand why you think a legacy of violence is somehow a ‘bad’ when that is islam’s central legacy, and something that they are as proud of as are the Russians and the Mongolians and the Chinese.

Bin Laden won. The strategy worked. His work will be studied for centuries. God knows I study it.

https://www.stratfor.com/weekly/death-and-destruction-bin-ladens-true-legacy