I have considerable trouble viewing bin Laden as on, "the level of Nikita Khrushchev or Joseph Stalin, as sort of leader of a contending super power and the only other one in the world besides the United States" as suggested by attorney David Bruck at the end of this article. It's a nice comparison for shock value, but once examined beyond his surface assertion, it becomes laughable. 30000 dissident fantatics spread through various 3rd world havens does not a super power make. Clearly dangerous, as we've witnessed, but not a world power.
- posted by levinson @ 9/22/2001 01:19:00 PM