[BRIEF NOTE] On 9/11, or, what a man with a vision can do

[rfmcdonald]

The anniversary of the 9/11 attacks has just ended, and I, for one, remain impressed by the genius of Osama bin Laden. Using his skills in rhetoric and organization, enlisting less than a two dozen volunteers, providing them with a half-million dollars, and giving them a clear plan, bin Laden managed to change the course of world history. The attack he organized killed thousands, the wars this attack triggered killed hundreds of thousands at least, and the lives of millions of people--easily tens of millions--have been directly deformed by all of these various legacies, of terrors and wars and persecutions and man-made disasters.

Never let it be said that one man can't change the world.