UBL, still winning

In a recent commentary, David Ignatius argues that Osama Bin Laden accomplished more for his cause than we realize. Highlights below.

-"in terms of bin Laden’s broader goal of moving the Islamic world away from Western influence, he has done better than we might like to think."

-"His movement is largely destroyed, but his passion for a purer and more Islamic government in the Arab world is partly succeeding."

-"Syria will be a test of whether this post-bin Laden Islamist movement can continue to reject violence or will instead be radicalized by the jihadist magnet that is Syrian President Bashar al-Assad."

-"his fellow Islamists have morphed toward a political movement more successful than even bin Laden could have dreamed."