Osama bin Laden didn’t break America. America did. We did so in thousands of tiny decisions, but we did it to ourselves. We broke our public schools through funding cuts, educational fads that don’t work, and by watering down the standards for educational achievement. Where in 1940, kids graduating from high school were generally capable of reading and writing at least at a twelfth grade level. In 2024, the median college graduate reads on an eighth grade level. Osama didn’t do that, we did. We’re now to the point in educational decline that students graduating from high school are not capable of reading and writing entire book on a topic, and certainly cannot read analytically. We destroyed the work ethic to the point that an entire generation is unwilling to get a job despite having spent decades going to school to train for those jobs. It’s now a regular occurrence for that generation to return to mom’s basement where they cry on various forms of social media that no woman wants to touch them. Osama did not create the incels. For that matter, Osama didn’t refuse to pay to keep up our infrastructure. The potholes, falling bridges, and out of date railways and ports are not caused because Osama did 9/11. Most if not all of these problems are self inflicted. And I’d put much more of the decline on Reagan and the fiscal conservatives gutting tge funds used to pay for education than to some middle eastern engineers turned jihadist with a kidney problem, Reagan republicans gutted unions, thus making living wages harder to come by. Problem being is that this process started in 1980 and OBL didn’t target the USA until he tried to plant a truck bomb in the WTC in the early 1990s. Osama’s most lasting legacy is that the USA has been bombing the crap out of the Middle East for decades and supporting Israel bombing the crap out of Palestine. It’s created a massive backlash against Islam in general and convinced much of the west that Muslims are holy warriors who want to behead them and rape their wives. His legacy has been to trash the reputation of Islam across the globe. I don’t see it as a win.