Osama bin-Laden has seen the greatest terror attack in world history precipate the opposite of the result he wants, namely America's abandonment of its values both here and abroad. He now attempts to shift his tactics from terror to diplomacy. He appears to concede that only the threat of future attacks has any promise of averting his impending defeat. There are other explanations for his tactical shift away from ruthless murder attacks without warning, including the distinct possibility that his ability to commit them has been virtually eliminated, but despite having a completely bankrupt philosophy he is not an idiot. (That description is most appropriate for the presumptive Democrat nominee for president.)
The 9/11 "Let's get Bush" Commission is looking in all the wrong places for the "cause" of 9/11 and any lessons that may be applied to preventing future attacks of such a nature. Since they appear to have little interest in the Clinton era DOJ's machinations to comply with the anti-objective "procedural safeguards" of our modern justice system, what hope is there that the LGB Commission will recognize the actual root-cause of 9/11: Historical American appeasement of the Arab Nationalism of Arab Fascist Regimes in their quest to kill or displace every Jew in Israel? None. That's why we have to recognize it on our own.
In OBL's "peace" offering he claims that his murderous attacks are justified in every instance. "They say that we kill for the sake of killing, but reality shows that they lie," the speaker said. Russians, he said, were only killed after attacking Afghanistan in the 1980s and Chechnya, Europeans after invading Iraq and Afghanistan and the Americans in New York after "supporting the Jews in Palestine and their invasion of the Arabian Peninsula." "Stop spilling our blood so we can stop spilling your blood," the message added. The message said that American policy ignores the "real problem," which is "the occupation of all of Palestine."
This tortured logic relies on the relativistic belief that the U.N. mandated post-war (WWII) immigration of ethnic Jews to their ancestral homeland constituted an "invasion" and that their peaceful and prosperous life there constitutes "occupation" and that the extent of this occupation entails "all of Palestine." By accomodating these distortions of history and reality, American presidents since Eisenhower have been laying the groundwork for Islamism and the 9/11 attacks. George W. Bush is the first President to actively say the Islamists have no right to attack us and no right to life if they do. To completely address the problem he must also say that Israelis have the same right to life and prosperity that Americans do, and we support their vigorous self-defense of their small part of the desert formerly known as Palestine.