Now, Kill His Dream  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 399 no. 8732 (May 2011), page 9-10.
Topik: Assassinations & assassination Attempts; Terrorism; Criminals; War; Muslims; Islam

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The shots that killed Osama bin Laden in the dead of night on May 2nd in a fortified compound not far from Islamabad came after 15 years of dogged pursuit, two long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, well over $1 trillion of spending and around 150,000 deaths. It is a heavy reckoning for one man's life. US President Barack Obama chose a manned assault directly on bin Laden rather than an air strike on his compound, as some of his advisers wished, and it paid off. Obama was lucky, but he made his luck--and he deserves the credit that will now come his way. the death of the world's most wanted man comes just when radical Islam looks vulnerable to the changes sweeping across the Middle East and north Africa. The task now facing all those who yearn for a safer world is to isolate bin Laden's savage jihad just as surely as its creator was isolated behind his compound walls. Bin Laden matters because he swept up a ragbag of local grievances into a brand of intoxicating and violent jihad with worldwide pretensions. His vision, however impractical, of purging Islam and establishing a single Islamic caliphate appealed to Muslims disgusted by the venality of their own elites. Even as Westerners came to fear bloodthirsty and barbaric Muslims, Muslims deplored degenerate and imperialist Christians. Bin Laden's brand of hatred thrived on both those grotesque stereotypes. Bin Laden's infamy in the West is losing its power to inspire his own people. This partly reflects the failure of violence to accomplish the goals he set himself in the Muslim world. Al-Qaeda will need stopping for years to come.

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