ON TERRORISM By R.Cohen

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Thanks to Bush, Bin Laden won

I hear Osama Bin Laden laughing.I heard him all day on Sunday and yesterday as the mass murder of Sept.11,2001, was memorialized at the Pentagon and in that field in Pennsylvania and, especially, here where the most people died and where countless cameras recorded it all posterity and an abiding,everlasting ,anger.He laughs,the madman does, whenever George Bush says,as he has over and over,that "America is winning this war on terror"Osama Bin Laden knows better. He has already won.It is not merely that Bin Laden has not been captured or killedand that Video tapes keep coming out of his hideout like taunts;it is rather that his initial strategy has borne fruit.He succeeded beyond his wildest expectations when the U.S. respondedto the Sept.11 attacks by invading Afghanistan and, in a beat, then going to war in IraqIt remains mired in both countries to this day.

Adapted from Daily News Opinions 9/12/06