President Bush, Osama is Winning

9/11 made a hero of President George Bush. He proudly stood before the world and proclaimed death to the terrorist Osama bin Laden. Six more 9/11s have passed and the world awaits Bush to deliver on his promise. Osama is believed to be alive if not kicking, and Bush is kicking ass but hardly alive.

9/11 gave Bush the license to declare war on terror. The only problem, it was Bush's definition of terror. And believe me it varies hugely from the dictionary meaning of terror. What Dubya failed to realize was fighting terror with terror was what the terrorist wanted.

9/11 saw Bush play into the hands of Osama. I say that because I do not believe conspiracy theories that argue Osama is of Bush, for Bush, by Bush. Yes, Osama was a US plant in the country's fight against the Soviet's in Afghanistan. But I don't think Bush has the gut to use Osama against his own people.

9/11, yes, Osama was the mastermind. But by openly declaring war against Osama, Bush accorded him legitimacy. A nation as powerful as the US was talking of waging war against one man. Either the US overestimated Osama or lacked belief in its own power.

9/11, anyway one looks at it, Bush's actions post the World Trade Center carnage smacked of the machismo that prevailed in the Wild West of the early twentieth century. First Afghanistan, then Iraq, Bush blundered his way through leaving behind a trail of terror and destruction.

9/11 and actions that followed saw hundreds of thousands if not millions of innocent civilians lose their limbs if not their lives. All because Bush woke up on the wrong side of the bed on 9/11.

9/11 if used rightly could have helped Bush emerge as a man of peace. Instead he chose to make terror his ally. What followed is more terror. For thousands of years one has seen that when humanity fights evil with evil, it becomes a part of the very evil that it set out to destroy.

9/11 saw history being repeated. Bush fought evil with evil, and has now emerged a larger evil. His actions have garnered greater support for Osama and his ilk among the Muslim world and fed his cause with dedicated children brainwashed to trade their lives for the luxury of knocking up beautiful women in heaven.

9/11 offered Bush a chance to lead the world to a new beginning. He instead chose to narrowly think of America first and humanity second, if he ever thought of it. So President Bush six years and billions of dollars down the line, Osama is winning and Americans are feeling no safer than they felt on 9/11. And yes, the world ain't feeling very safe either.