Has Bin Laden reached Hitler's status in infamy?

[richardhutnik]

Branko2166 said:

First off it's not even close for a multitude of reasons. Especially when viewed outside of America.

Second many have argued that he was created by the US and built up into a terrorist version of the boogeyman and the defacto personification of terrorism. There is a reason why it took close to a decade for him to get assassinated.

As long as he was on the loose, the crusade could be continued indefinitely. Once he was milked for all that he was worth he was then taken out. And that's if we believe those events to be 100% factual. Some theorise that he was dead for a while and the whole operation was a stunt.

Considering that he was one of the most wanted men of all time it is beyond shocking that they didn't even show his body. And the explanation that they threw him into the sea out of respect to islamic custom is laughable.

After the cold war, which threatened civilization both through communism (threat to the right) and nuclear winter (threat to the green side of the left), there was a void in what the greatest threat was.  End result was there was a split with the left beating the drum of climate change, and the right on terrorism.  Bin Laden ended up becoming an icon of this post-cold war era of no mater super powers clashing, so something had to be seen as a threat.  But, I think it is also important to understand what is going on.  I find people thinking of cabals orchestrating conspiracies to be absurd.  However, it doesn't mean the powers that be don't try to spin things certain ways for political gain.  They will utilize the noise of the internet to mask intentions and also be able to have enough random events they can spin.