Osama bin Laden and his fellow jihadis may well have figured out that the only way that they can continue to feel good about their place in the world is by reducing the West to the same level of desperate impoverishment as the Arab world. This also explains the left’s alliance with bin Laden almost from the beginning–they also share this resentment that the West isn’t desperately poor (but not enough to give up their private jets and Ferraris).

Clayton Cramer
September 3, 2006
A Dark Thought as We Approach The Fifth Anniversary of 9/11