Bin Laden offers "truce"

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Originally Posted by Motorboat Cruiser

I don't think Osama gives a rats ass about playing to the left or right.

All your other points have validity, but I find this statement to underestimate Osama. He comlpetely understands the politics here in America, and in fact he cited Somalia as the reason he thought he could be successful, because America can't stomach casualties.

He is most certainly playing. He is playing to the Arab community in trying to make it seem like he wants the destruction and bombings in their backyard to stop, and he is playing to the left in this country by offering a sham peace in order to give himself time.

He completely understands American politics.