One of Bin Laden's goals was to exact a huge financial cost, and he largely succeeded. One of Bin Laden's goals was to foment distrust of America around the wo

One of Bin Laden's goals was to exact a huge financial cost, and he largely succeeded. One of Bin Laden's goals was to foment distrust of America around the world. He succeeded. The undermining of core liberties, the sullying of legal foundations to support the "war on terror", the vast increase in monitoring and other totalitarian state system, further radicalization of the right wing and division in the US, that was alllll gravy.